Quotes by Equality Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. Kofi Annan equality goal challenges The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations. Kofi Annan equality family justice More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. Kofi Annan equality country reality Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking? Krzysztof Kieslowski equality liberty people Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors. L. Neil Smith equality each-day law Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. Langston Hughes equality air america Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings. Laura Riding equality relation men Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom. Laurence Stallings equality race boys If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself. Laverne Cox equality inspiring people The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized. Leland Stanford equality rights sex The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. Leonard Boswell equality opportunity years Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status. Lewis F. Powell, Jr. availability equality inspirational The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal. Lewis F. Powell, Jr. equality color mean there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy. Letitia Elizabeth Landon equality together class No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes. Lillian Hellman equality rights earthquakes People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. Linda Ellerbee equality differences beauty We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling sense-of-humor progressive equality It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. Lord Acton democracies-have equality freedom It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. Logan Pearsall Smith odd-things disagree equality Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share. Lorene Cary equality children art «1112131415161718192021»
