60 Equality Quotes to Inspire Diversity & Inclusion

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- Desmond Tutu

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
- Marian Anderson

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcolm X

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
- Carl Schurz

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
- Taylor Swift

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
- J. K. Rowling

The pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness can become a reality for everyone if we eliminate issues standing in the way of improved race relations. I love this country and we've made so much progress, but we're not there yet.
- Bernard J. Tyson

Diversity is a fact, but inclusion is a choice we make every day. As leaders, we have to put out the message that we embrace and not just tolerate diversity.
- Nellie Borrero

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
- Franz Boas

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race — scientifically, anthropological.
- Toni Morrison

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
- Maya Angelou

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
- Mike Honda

The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.
- Denise Morrison

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
- Billie Jean King

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
- Toni Morrison

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
- Agnes Macphail

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
- Sheryl Sandberg

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

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
- Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

We need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability.
- Stevie Wonder,

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
- DeRay Mckesson

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
- Franklin Thomas

It's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America.
- Patricia Arquette, Academy Award Winner and Activist

Inequality, in all its forms — gender, LGBTQ, racial, or otherwise — is an issue that every company must address for its own benefit and to create a better world. We believe businesses need to focus on closing the equality gap with the same energy put into creating new products and markets.
- Tony Prophet, Chief Equality Officer

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
- Tim Berners-Lee

A lot of different flowers make a bouquet.
- Islamic Proverb

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
- Jintao Hu

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity life would be very boring.
- Catherine Pulsifer

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
- John F. Kennedy

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community—and this nation.
- Cesar Chavez

Gender and racially diverse teams perform better, innovate more, and improve economic quality.
- Stephanie Lampkin

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly
- 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; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
- Adrian Joseph Cronauer

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela

We must look past our own narrow interests and attend to the interests of our global society.
- Malala Yousafzai

It takes no compromise to give people their rights… it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.
- Harvey Milk

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
- Barbara Gittings

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.
- Alice Paul

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

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

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
- David Cameron

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.
- Dalai Lama

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole – it's two wholes that make a whole.
- Katy Perry

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson

Equality implies individuality.
- Trey Anastasio

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens.
- Betty Ford

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

Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently.
- Kimberlé Crenshaw

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
- Frances Wright

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.
- Edward Enninful

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
- Tom Robbins

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free.
- Voltaire

Diversity should be forever; it should be a normal thing.
- Storm Reid

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
- Kurt Vonnegut