Quotes on Equality Of People

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

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.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Four 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.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.