Quotes About Equality

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish, would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches!

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.