Terry Eagleton Quotes

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

The vision of Israel's prophets became the pillar of fire leading the struggle in support of the weak and the different towards equality.

You cannot isolate a group and say you're not going to serve their needs.

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

We have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn't even need to be a gay label.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.