Quotes About Equality

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

None of our kids come into the world knowing anything about disliking one another.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

People at the record labels were like, 'We don't want to sign you, you're girls' - sexist, ridiculous nonsense.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence would work today, it would work 2,000 years from now, it would work 5,000 years from now.

We are rooted in Kingian nonviolence.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'