Quotes About Equality

The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to feel all warm inside about that?

One hundred years ago my great-grandfather thought women shouldn't vote. He was absolutely certain about that, and I'm absolute certain he was wrong. Two hundred years ago my great-great-great=great grandfather believed that white men should own black men. He was absolutely certain about that, and I am certain that he was wrong. I'm humble because I don't know what I'm wrong about today. I'll speak with confidence and I'll speak with passion, but I won't speak with certainty.

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody can reach it.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

The first duty of society is justice. ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757–1804)

As lawyers, our first responsibility is, of course, to see that the legal profession provides adequate representation for all people in our society. I would suggest there is no subject which is more important to the legal profession, that is more important to this nation, than & the realization of the ideal of equal justice under law for all. RICHARD NIXON, IN HIS SPEECH TO THE NATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION (OCTOBER 1962) [E]very

It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Dolores.

socialism has only two fundamental problems: lunch and dinner.

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?

Treat others as you would like to be treated

Men have periods, too... they just dont bleed.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

No one is immune from obesity – it affects everyone from every race, gender and age. For the first time in history, there is a real possibility that children will not outlive their parents as a result of weight-related illnesses and other diseases. There has to be a better way!

One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

Particular stories call us to accountability," feminist social ethicist Sharon Welch explains.50

My father used to say that opression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off. Not without struggle, not without pain, but he believed the weight would always, always be fought and overcome.