Quotes About Equality

Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.

Orättvisan passade tydligen bättre en del människor än andra.

Americans need to continue to develop broad-based movements that reject the established political parties and rethink the social formations necessary to bring about a radical democracy. We see this in the Black Lives Matter movement as well as in a range of other movements that are resisting corporate money in politics, the widespread destruction of the environment, nuclear war and the mass incarceration state.

Some have spoken of the "American Century." I say that the century on which we are entering—the century which will come out of this war—can be and must be the century of the common man.

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development

2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man—criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man—to rule by force instead of by intelligence.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.