Quotes About Equality

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

It was to Greece that the Romans first owed their knowledge of healing, and of art and science generally, but at no time did the Romans equal the Greeks in mental culture.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.

Freeedom is not something you beg your enemies for, freedom is what you get when we stand up like Men and fight for Freedom, Justice and Equality

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

In the "lynching era," between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these "Christians" did not see the irony or contradiction in their actions.

The Gospel of liberation is bad news to all oppressors because they have defined their "freedom" in terms of slavery of others.

And certainly the history of the black-white relations in this country from the Civil War to the present unmistakably shows that as a people, America has never intended for blacks to be free. To this day, in the eyes of most white Americans, the black man remains subhuman.

takes a whole lot of empathic effort to step into those of black people and see the world through the eyes of African Americans.

The most sensitive whites merely said: "We deplore the riots but sympathize with the reason for the riots." This was tantamount to saying: "Of course we raped your women, lynched your men, and ghettoized the minds of your children and you have a right to be upset; but that is no reason for you to burn our buildings. If you people keep acting like that, we will never give you your freedom.

any analysis of the gospel which did not begin and end with God's liberation of the oppressed was ipso facto unchristian.

Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

Because when you get down to it, thinking of somebody as 100% human seriously gets in the way of hating them.

A kingdom without justice, he memorably observed, was nothing but a very large band of pirates.

They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it ony makes for trouble. Me and the United States is dissociating our alliance as of right now, until the United States can find time to read its own textbooks a little.

Look a'here, some people say we got a lot of malice Some say it's a lotta nerve I say we won't quit moving Til we get what we deserve. We've been 'buked and we've been scourned We've been treated bad, talked about As just as sure as you're born But just as sure as it take Two eyes to make a pair, huh Brother, we can't quit until we get our share. Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud.

This is a mans world. This is a mans world. But it would be nothing, nothing Without a women or a girl.