Quotes About Equality

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.

Chaque fois qu'un homme a fait triompher la dignité de l'esprit, chaque fois qu'un homme a dit non à une tentative d'asservissement de son semblable, je me suis senti solidaire de son acte.

I do battle for the creation of a human world - that ism a world of reciprocal recognition.

It is the racist who creates the inferiorized.

We must not cultivate the spirit of the exceptional or look for the hero, another form of leader. We must elevate the people, expand their minds, equip them, differentiate them, and humanize them.

If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

The Third World today faces Europe like a colossal mass whose project should be to try to resolve the problems to which Europe has not been able to find the answers.

Desperto um belo dia no mundo e me atribuo um único direito: exigir do outro um comportamento humano. Um único dever: o de nunca, através de minhas opções, renegar minha liberdade.

Oui, comme on le voit, en faisant appel à l'humanité, au sentiment de la dignité, à l'amour, à la charité, il nous serait facile de prouver ou de faire admettre que le Noir est l'égal du Blanc. Mais notre but est tout autre : ce que nous voulons, c'est aider le Noir à se libérer de l'arsenal complexuel qui a germé au sein de la situation coloniale. M.

The colonized' subject thus dicovers that his life, his breathing and his heartbeats are the same as the colonist's. He discovers that the skin of a colonist is not worth more than the 'native's.

Brother,' 'sister,' 'comrade' are words outlawed by the colonialist bourgeoisie because in their thinking my brother is my wallet and my comrade, my scheming.

The colonized's revolutionary new assurance stems from this. If, in fact, my life is worth as much as the colonist's, his look can no longer strike fear into me or nail me to the spot and his voice can no longer petrify me. I am no longer uneasy in his presence. In reality, to hell with him. Not only does his presence no longer bother me, but I am already preparing to waylay him in such a way that soon he will have no other solution but to flee. The colonial context, as

The masses, however, have no intention of looking on as the chances of individual success improve.

Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of "sisters of charity." This help should be the ratification of a double realization: the realization by the colonized peoples that it is their due , and the realization by the capitalist powers that in fact they must pay .

We must elevate the people, expand their minds, equip them, differentiate them, and humanize them.

No leader, no matter how valuable he may be, can substitute himself for the popular will; and the national government, before concerning itself about international prestige, ought first to give back their dignity to all citizens, fill their minds and feast their eyes with human things, and create a prospect that is human because human consciousness and sovereign men dwell therein.

Como el color es el signo exterior mas visible de la raza, se convierte en el criterio y en el angulo bajo el que se juzga a los hombres sin tener en cuenta sus logros educativos y sociales. Las razas de piel clara han llegado a despreciar a las razas de piel oscura y estas Ultimas se nie­gan a consentir por mas tiempo esa condici6n subordinada que les pretenden imponer

This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every means, including, of course, violence.

When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever. That is, of one by another. That it be possible for me to discover and to love man, wherever he may be.