A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Jimmy CarterNever, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson MandelaToday we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack ObamaWe travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.
Angelina JolieI don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.
Billie EilishAnd every human being is precious.
Desmond TutuBefore God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
AristotleHomophobia is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisWe do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich NietzscheThe man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Theodore RooseveltThe way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.
Kendrick LamarWe must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy CarterWhat I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
Barack ObamaI have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas JeffersonThe community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
PlatoIf physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘
Terry PratchettI try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.
Ruth Bader GinsburgDemocracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
AristotleI want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
Angelina JolieGovernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham LincolnI look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
Matthew McConaugheyWomen’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda MeirNow, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack ObamaWhen you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.
Desmond TutuI do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
Noam ChomskyThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. RooseveltStupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich NietzscheNo greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Booker T. WashingtonAll, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas JeffersonFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham LincolnI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston ChurchillWomen feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘
RihannaJustice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda MeirThe little man is still a man.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert HubbardI can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.
Kendrick LamarI’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.
Narendra ModiAll History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice WalkerI think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Billy GrahamIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.
Jordan PetersonI have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
Kamala HarrisFor to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson MandelaAll of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.
Barack ObamaWe should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
Karl MarxIsn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuThese men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham LincolnThe vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.
Kevin HartI have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond TutuIn the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam ChomskyTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensFour legs good, two legs bad.
George OrwellEnlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas JeffersonGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken