Equality QuotesEquality quotes offer insights into our shared humanity and interconnectedness. Gandhi and the Dalai Lama are advocates for the rights of all living things. Equality is our highest aim in issues of social justice and human rights. Are all men and women created equal? Some say equality is an impossible ideal. Explore the possibilities through these inspirational quotes and sayings. Love your neighbor as yourself. Leviticus 19:18 Love either finds equality or makes it. John Dryden Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. John Fischer Remember that you are all people and that all people are you. Joy Harjo Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert G. Ingersoll The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph We’ve got to take back the ideal of justice, we’ve got to take back this principle of human dignity, we’ve got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we’ve got to say: look, we’re all in this together. We are human beings. David Kaczynski I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane. Martin Luther King, Jr. We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. Martin Luther King Jr. When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. Ramana Maharshi I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard. Sathya Sai Baba I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. Albert Schweitzer Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small. Dr. Seuss Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. Voltaire The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. Alice Walker Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. Woodrow Wilson Return from Equality Quotes, Equal Quotations and Sayings about Equals to Quotes Listed by Subject
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