Quotes About Equality

There were still men walking the streets of 1922 Indiana who had fought against the slaveholders, and who believed that liberating humans held as property had been the highest calling of their lives. Among them was William H. Stern, a white man raised on a farm north of Indianapolis.

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Among the 150 members of the General Assembly of 1925, only two were women and four were Catholics; there were no Black or Jewish representatives.

It came about that American citizens in Indiana were judged by their religion, condemned because of their race, illegally punished because of their opinions, hounded because of their personal conduct, and a state of terror was substituted for a state of law.

The Negro is among us and the race should be encouraged to progress, but that path should never lead to social mingling," warned the Indianapolis Star in 1921.

A handful of Hoosiers were heroic—two rabbis, an African American publisher born enslaved, a fearless Catholic lawyer, a small-town editor repeatedly beaten and thrown in jail, a lone prosecutor.

We are the law itself—the same boast would be heard in Indiana

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To look at the face [of Princess Angeline] and not see humanity is to lack humanity.

Jim Crow was a bipartisan crime.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. —MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."—John Rawls

Art Is Socialism, but Life Is Capitalism "My wife made the observation that everyone's equal on stage, but off stage, they're completely unequal." Mike wrote down, "Art is socialism but life is capitalism," and that became a guiding principle for his film Don't Think Twice.

Amazon, Netflix, etc., repararon en que, en total, las ventas de todos los productos minoritarios igualaban, y en algunos casos excedían, las ventas de los contados productos más vendidos.

if the woman can refrain from trying to change or mother her partner, she has a greater opportunity of putting herself in a position where the guy will respect her. A man needs support. I mean, I love you guys and you're all strong, but you're very fragile, and you need to be supported and [for us to] help you fully realize your voice, whatever that is.

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning is similar—

You only have the rights you fight for.

En igualdad de condiciones, para incrementar tu felicidad, lo único que hay que hacer es desearle a cualquier otra persona elegida al azar que sea feliz.

No tiene ningún sentido que a las niñas se les diga que son más frágiles

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. —WILLIAM GIBSON,

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. —WILLIAM GIBSON, author of Neuromancer; coined term "cyberspace" in 1984

You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You'll never be the smartest person in the room. You'll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. —BISHOP DESMOND TUTU, South African cleric and activist