Quotes About Equality

Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Let us together desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

velké bratrství mladých lidí bez rozdílu p?vodu, rasy a vyznání.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Ésa es la esencia del cambio: aceptar que más allá de las apariencias, en el resguardo más escondido de la humanidad que cargamos, hay un sitio especial en el que somos tan crudamente iguales, tan desesperadamente humanos, tan misteriosamente frágiles, que nadie merece sentirse inferior. No hay otra forma de vencer la vergüenza privada que aceptarse incondicionalmente, a pesar de todo, y de todos.

pluralismo (aceptar las diferencias civilizadas y convivir con ellas sin reprimirlas ni ofenderse).

I'm putting it to my black brothers and sisters that the colour of our skins is the most fundamental thing about us.

Black Power is not racially intolerant. It is the hope of the black man that he should have power over his own destinies. This is not incompatible with a multiracial society where each individual counts equally. Because the moment that power is equitably distributed among several ethnic groups, the very relevance of making the distinction between groups will be lost.

It is as though no black man can see another black man except by looking through a white person. It is time we started seeing through our own eyes.

Christ was a member of the Essene group of Jews from Egypt. Were he alive today, he would suffer from racial discrimination.

Delay in justice is injustice.

An egalitarian society presupposes nonviolence, for violence is the way some are able to deprive others of what is justly theirs. Inequality can only be maintained by violence. The root of violence, moreover, is domination.

Neutrality in a situation of oppression always supports the status quo.

There is no one, and surely no entire people, in whom the image of God has been utterly extinguished. Faith in God means believing that anyone can be transformed, regardless of the past. To write off whole groups of people as intrinsically racist and violent is to accept the very same premise that upholds racist and oppressive regimes.

Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.

If you see a white man running, you think "He must be late for a meeting." When you see a black man running, you think, "I'm calling the cops. Hey, somebody stop his black ass!"

Why don't you marry another gay guy? That was fun...

Language, like woman, Look best when free, undressed.

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

We all share one planet and are one humanity; there is no escaping this reality.

Plus on s'élève dans l'échelle sociale, moins il y a de femmes.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

What does the world need most . . . that we are uniquely able to provide? Shaich says he wrestled with that question for a while, then worked his way to an answer with the launch of Panera Cares—an initiative to open a number of pay-what-you-can cafés that are identical to the chain's other restaurants, except customers pay what they wish or can afford (based on suggested donation amounts).