Justice Equality Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

Laurence Overmire

#3. A species that survives by creating must not limit who can create. More creators means more creations. Equality brings justice to some and wealth to all.

Kevin Ashton

#4. I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. - Thomas Paine

Zig Ziglar

#5. To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.

Jesse Jackson

#6. People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Cherie Blair

#7. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

#8. To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you ... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

Nnedi Okorafor

#9. Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Derrick A. Bell

#11. The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.

Russell Simmons

#13. We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

John Howard Griffin

#14. As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past
to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

Roger Zelazny

#16. Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced.

Arundhati Roy

#17. Justice means equality for equals, and inequality for unequals.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for people to gain freedom, justice, and equality here except by being internationalist.

Richard Aoki

#19. The concept of "social justice," which purports to promote equality among the lines of gender and ethnicity, is based on intersectional feminist theory. Per the theory, certain classes of people are naturally oppressors, while others are victims. There's nothing more divisive than that.

Ian Miles Cheong

#20. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Malcolm X

#21. Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality

Paul Isaacs

#22. While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality - that everyone should be treated the same - an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence - that no one should be hurt.

Carol Gilligan

#23. Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to
Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all
peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and
equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between
peoples.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#24. Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

LeCrae

#25. i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality - Long Live Pakistan and Happy Independence Day

Avinash Advani

#26. The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

Pat Schroeder

#27. As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

George Takei

#28. He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

B. Margoliouth

#29. No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits ... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

Christine Stewart

#30. The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

Tarja Halonen

#31. If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin

#32. We can do better ... We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

Hillary Clinton

#33. The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

John Marshall

#34. Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

Kevin DeYoung

#35. I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

Muhammad Ali

#36. We are in the midst of an exciting canvass ... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

#37. If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

Immanuel Kant

#38. Equality is humanity.

Rashmit Kalra

#39. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning.

Angelina Jolie

#40. The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

Aga Khan IV

#41. One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting the
Stolen equality of the weak is nobler than a
Century filled with greed and usurpation.

Kahlil Gibran

#42. I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

Christy Turlington

#43. We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation.

Robert A. Caro

#44. How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

Jay Grewal

#45. The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

Francis Fukuyama

#46. I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#47. While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice.

Nancy Gibbs

#48. Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.

Henry Giroux

#49. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Thomas Paine

#50. Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America ... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

Hillary Clinton

#51. We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#52. Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Isaiah Berlin

#53. The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.

Kofi Annan

#54. For if our bodies aren't our own,
And justice isn't ours,
And our love is just a sin,
And voices by the people
Are no longer for the people,
What have we left to lose?

Phar West Nagle

#55. The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

Evo Morales

#56. Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

Frances Wright

#57. Equality does not mean justice. If the wall is equality then not everyone can look from the top of the wall

Ahmed

#58. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity. A

Will Durant

#59. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

#60. It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

Ida Tarbell

#61. I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

Sarah Grimke

#62. The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.

Walt Whitman

#63. For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

Aristotle.

#64. No self-respecting person who loves humanity
or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice
should have anything to do with whitewashing the
slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

Anthony Gregory

#65. The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave.

Auliq Ice

#66. A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

H.G.Wells

#67. Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.

Jimmy Fallon

#68. We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse!

Adriano Bulla

#69. I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

Martin Luther King Jr.

#70. Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated their misery.

Jake Danishevsky

#71. God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Peter Kreeft

#72. The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#73. Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality ...

Malcolm X

#74. I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

Hugo Chavez

#75. Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Malcolm X

#76. Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Lynn Schusterman

#77. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#78. Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

Laurence Stallings

#79. The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among the English that if liberty, equality, and justice were ever to come to their shores, it certainly was not Napoleon who would bring them there.

J. Christopher Herold

#80. Justice is Equality ... but equality of what?

Aristotle.

#81. The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.

John Carlos

#82. Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Charles S. Weinblatt

#83. The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good.
Abraham Lincoln, Original Quote

Seth Grahame-Smith

#84. The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.

Bryant McGill

#85. 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.

Evo Morales

#86. Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

George Sand

#87. What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Ludwig Von Mises

#88. The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Aristotle.

#89. We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Susan B. Anthony

#90. We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common ... The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

Anita Hill

#91. For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Bertrand Russell

#92. For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.

Robert P. Jones

#93. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Thomas Jefferson

#94. The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#95. The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#96. With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.

Evo Morales

#97. Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

Theodore Roosevelt

#98. Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

Johann Lamont

#99. Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

N.K. Jemisin

#100. My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

Eric Schneiderman