Catherine the Great Quotes

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

…Anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

No one enjoys being equal.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.