34 quotes
“If peace means accepting second class citizenship then I dont want peace.”
— Kofi Annan
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Do not walk behind me I may not lead do not walk in front of me I may not follow just walk beside me and be my friend”
— Albert Camus
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.”
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”
— Mencius
“Equal rights for all special privileges for none”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is an equal partnership”
— Pema Chodron
“A person is a person no matter how small”
— Dr Seuss
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Have no friends not equal to yourself”
— Confucius
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”
— Aristotle
“Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller and Michelangelo.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world and the absence of compassion”
— Paul Farmer
“What I treasure most in life is being able to dream about the day when the oppressed and the exploited can sit together as equals”
— Rigoberta Menchu
“Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress them there neither persons nor property will be safe”
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.”
— Unknown
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a covenant between equals”
— Brene Brown
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded its a relationship between equals”
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”
— French National Motto
“We have to improve life not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system but for the people who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity”
— Dorothy Height
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“Saving our planet lifting people out of poverty advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight”
— Ban Ki-moon
“All are equal in the face of death.”
— Plato
“All men dream, but not equally.”
— T. E. Lawrence
“Have compassion for all beings rich and poor alike for each has their own suffering”
— Buddha
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