100 Equality Quotes to Inspire Diversity & Inclusion

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Diversity is critical to innovation.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

Time and time again, we have seen a growing alliance of allies who are willing to stand with trans people, who are educating themselves on trans identity and trans equality, and who understand that our lives are worth celebrating and that our cause matters.

We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

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.

You can't avoid the conversation of diversity and remembering that diversity goes beyond race and culture. It goes into gender and sexual orientation and all sorts of things.

When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

How do we get to equality? I don't think it comes from fear. I think it comes from understanding.

I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

I want my children to attend inclusive schools where diversity is respected and acknowledged as a sign of strength.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

I love being in my own skin, and I hope other women start feeling better about themselves and waste less energy being ashamed of their bodies.

I truly believe diversity is beauty.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

I feel like fashion is making steps toward diversity, but I think they could do more.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

I think the more diversity that one has in his life, the happier he can be, as long as he is able to do whatever he chooses to do at that given time well.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.

We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

My becoming the CEO is a testament to our long commitment to diversity inclusion. And I intend to really focus and really pay that forward for our future diverse leaders at Deloitte.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Equality for women is progress for all.

We need an inspiring vision of equality that resonates in the hearts, minds, and souls of all Americans.

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing's really changed.