Quotes About Equality

Ours was a love story, the kind that's not supposed to happen to black girls anymore. This was vintage romance made scarce after Dr. King, along with Negro-owned dress shops, drugstores, and cafeterias.

In my marriage, I never determined which of us was rootstock and which the grafted branch.

Don't make your daughter feel like she got to lay with who you want her to lay with, like you're some kind of pimp.

Kodak commercials say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the one they showed of Rodney ain't worth more than three or four. Boy. Black.

Black and alive is always a good start.

If you're a grown women and have more than ten dollars in the bank, nobody understands why you can't have a baby.

How can you explain to a woman that you want to fuck her like a human being?

How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?

Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.

It was as though they wanted to say: Look how tolerant and liberal we are! This African is just like one of us! He has married a daughter of ours and works with us on an equal footing! If only you knew, this sort of European is no less evil than the madmen who believe in the supremacy of the white man in South Africa and in the southern states of America. The same exaggerated emotional energy bears either to the extreme right or to the extreme left.

He scolded his listeners for being eager to sell off their few productive assets in exchange for articles of prestige. "You say you want a definition of perpetual motion?" he asked. "Give the average Negro a Cadillac and tell him to park it on some land he owns.

El mismo Dios había establecido los límites de las naciones y había creado las diferentes razas, por lo que ningún hombre debía intentar cambiarlos.

We would be intolerant if we were intolerant of intolerance.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

The myriad visitors to Bethune's grave include peasants and men of renown, famous names and anonymous workers. They stand with equal reverence before it, and they leave it feeling an equal gratitude. For, in the memory of Bethune's life, the great are reminded of people from whom they draw their strength, and the people are reminded of the road that everyone can travel to greatness.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

A number of human adolescents have complained that Voyl has more rights than they do; obviously the digients have seen their comments.

in 1900, David Hilbert listed what he considered to be the twenty-three most important unsolved problems of mathematics. The second item on his list was a request for a proof of the consistency of arithmetic. Such a proof would ensure the consistency of a great deal of higher mathematics. What this proof had to guarantee was, in essence, that one could never prove one equals two. Few mathematicians regarded this as a matter of much import.

if the situation of the working classes was improved in the manner he hoped, that might demonstrate to the nobility that poverty was not innate.

Is it more respectful to treat him like a human being, or to accept that he isn't one?

I knew for certain that being accorded a biography isn't dependent on one's species or one's fame.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?