Top 1200 Human Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All of the motives a human being may have, which are mixed, that's the novelists' materials. That's where they have to go. And a lot of that just isn't pretty. We like to think of ourselves as really, really good people. But look in the mirror. Really look. Look at your own mixed motives. And then multiply that.

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

We're still stuck in male, female, feminism. I don't believe in, you know... I believe in gender equality.

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

Technology's role in human trafficking cannot be ignored. But if we focus on how to prevent human trafficking, technology also has a powerful role. Like Ashton Kutcher's app Thorn, which directly spots human trafficking and connects you with officials.

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Feminism, to me, is nothing more and nothing less than the belief in equality for women.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

How do we get to equality? I don't think it comes from fear. I think it comes from understanding.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

We don't consider manual work as a curse, or a bitter necessity, not even as a means of making a living. We consider it as a high human function, as the basis of human life, the most dignified thing in the life of the human being, and which ought to be free, creative. Men ought to be proud of it.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.

I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't about justice and equality.

This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.