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“ALL human beings are equal no matter their race,social, political and economic status. No one can eat, excrete, sleep, bear your pains and die your death for you no matter your might.”

— Oppong Amankwaa, Share via Whatsapp

“Austen knew nothing of our modern quest for equality. People are not numbers, and so they are never “equal.” Some folk are higher placed than others, have more money, were more fortunate in their parents, or are brighter. These gifts do not come to us by merit but by the unfathomable providence of God.”

— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization, Share via Whatsapp

“We all came in on different ships, but we re all in the same boat now”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Share via Whatsapp

“When it s better for everyone, it s better for everyone.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt, Share via Whatsapp

“But all this business about kings and lords, it s against basic human dignity. We re all born equal. It makes me sick. Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick, said Nobby. It s Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.”

— Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!, Share via Whatsapp

“A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her. She may be sitting here amongst us.”

— Efrat Israeli, Her Promised Road, Share via Whatsapp

“If God had wanted us to judge other people, we d all have been born with silly wigs.”

— Adriano Bulla, Share via Whatsapp

“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus, the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced, as it were, to a single principle.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Share via Whatsapp

“Falsafa ya Usawa kwa Watu na Vitu Vyote ya Yin-Yang ya Kichina ni falsafa inayotumiwa na Wachina, kujifunza sanaa ya mapigano na kutengeneza madawa ya asili, na magaidi wa madawa ya kulevya wa Amerika ya Kusini na Kaskazini kusaidia watu waliosahauliwa na serikali zao.”

— Enock Maregesi, Share via Whatsapp

“Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.”

— Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Share via Whatsapp

“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.”

— Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April, Share via Whatsapp

“My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.”

— Shahla Khan, Share via Whatsapp

“Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.”

— Amy Harmon, A Different Blue, Share via Whatsapp

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

— Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers, Share via Whatsapp

“The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Share via Whatsapp

“We are all equal. The unlike of choices is what distinguishes us from each other.”

— Amen Muffler, Share via Whatsapp

“The fundamental Law of The Universe states that all human beings are fundamentally the same and therefore have an equal right to live in equality.”

— Anthony Pan, Share via Whatsapp