Quotes About Equality

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

It's not their fault. It's because they've been taught that 'Work is holy, good and beautiful. It counts above everything else, and the workers alone will inherit the earth.' Only things have been arranged so that they have to spend all their time working and there's no time left for the rest of it to come true.

Maga is olyan, mint a többi! – mondta. – Azt hiszi, hogy a nÅ'knek szépnek kell lenniük…

There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

There's no pyramid with literary fiction at the top and everything else at the bottom. It's a flat line.

When you speak your mind—and speak for those who need help—there's no more powerful way to be heard.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles—the oppression of tyranny—to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if there are any abroad who desire to make this the land of their adoption, it is not in my heart to throw aught in their way, to prevent them from coming to the United States.

There was no moral equivalence among systems of government, their leaders, or cultures. Any society that did not respect human rights or the rule of law could not consider itself the equal of those that did.

The greatest thing India could do for its people was to keep the playing field as level as possible and work tirelessly to see to it that everyone was following the rules. After that, it was up to the individual to succeed based on their talent and hard work.

Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?

Sería concebible para un jurado inglés que pudiera existir un negro que no robara ni mintiera? ¿Un negro que fuera una persona respetable? No parecía probable.

Um sistema moral que pune a mulher e isenta o homem de toda a culpa me parece assaz execrável.

My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men's equals and I am entirely of his opinion.

it disrespectful to the House to love some Statues more than others? I sometimes ask Myself this question. It is my belief that the House itself loves and blesses equally everything that it has created. Should I try to do the same? Yet, at the same time, I can see that it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

Don't assume, when a lady wants to take up a task or a cause, that is just a hobby.

A ridiculous oversight I mean to address at the earliest opportunity. Women dress to please men. Why shouldn't men then be in on the process from the beginning?" "Looking attractive pleases oneself," she replied in English. "It is a man's good fortune if the result pleases him, as well.

The World will be a better place when everybody's beige.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.

The religion of Islam views animals as a special part of God's creation and generally extols kindness to animals, but like Judaism and Christianity animals are not considered to be the equal of humankind.

Of even more importance, residents of other planets are God's creation, His children, just as we are, after all.

The Sioux say: "With all things and in all things, we are relatives.