Quotes About Equality

There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.