Quotes About Equality

Listen: I let you be, therefore let me be.

doctrine of the Trinity means that there can be genuine diversity and even order among persons without diminishing their equality.

We have demonized the dark along with half of what is good within us, and half of the human race besides.

That is why, in order to arrive at a suitable message for the coming millennium, Buddhism has reached clear back to its beginnings to reclaim a belief in the fundamental equality and dignity of all life and bring that teaching back to the fore.

La fraternité, Messieurs, réclame pour son exercice une certaine médiocrité démographique.

Sólo un solitario es capaz de estar al lado de otro sin sentir la necesidad, la obligación y el derecho, de poseerlo ni de cambiarlo.

Por qué tanta gente cree que su vida es única y yo creo que la mía es igual a la de cualquiera?

Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plomera diplomada y no agarran un destornillador ni que se esté inundando la casa.

Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

I suppose if all I had to do was bleach my hair blond to stop white supremacists from wanting to burn crosses in my yard, I might consider blondness myself. Certainly, the forty-fifth president and his family understand the importance of the blond signifier in their campaign to Make America Great Again.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. (Ralph Ellison)

What is it we want for our daughter? Perhaps it's the ability to negotiate the world with an empathic imagination. The thing that brought both my husband and me to the gymnasium is the knowledge that though the deep-seated racist systems are reaffirmed and the evidence is there for us to see, I still want the world for my daughter that is more than this world, a world that has our daughter already in it.

Teju Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.

Senator Bernie Sanders, who was the hope of so many, considering Democratic losses after the 2018 midterm elections, remarked, "There are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American." How is not voting for someone simply because they're black not racist?

this nation is both its credits and debits.

I don't think white people identify themselves as white Americans. They think their perspective is objective. They don't realize they're always invested in the advancement of white people.

You don't speak unless you are spoken to and your body speaks to the space you fill and you keep trying to fill it except the space belongs to the body of the man next to you, not to you.

Patricia Williams has pointed out in The Alchemy of Race and Rights: "The cold game of equality staring makes me feel like a thin sheet of glass…. I could force my presence, the real me contained in those eyes, upon them, but I would be smashed in the process." Interviewed

essential desire for equity and the ability to live freely without the fear of white terrorism literally trumps everything, as former first lady Michelle Obama expresses in Becoming.

If white people don't see their whiteness, how can they speak to it? Was the student white? Who wrote the scenario? Does diversity not include any training to see ourselves or is it simply about addressing black grievance?

Just us, just people, the same people, but what is it that the just people are feeling or wanting or being? The brouhaha so brutal, rising, rising up, rise up. What rises up within, between us? What comes up because we are the history within us?

Because white men can't police their imagination, black men are dying.

Looking around, I wonder about all the white parents surrounding me. Are any of them anxious that these white teachers are overrepresenting the race of their child and therefore affirming white dominance and white hierarchical thinking? Are any concerned that these white teachers, with their overwhelming representation of whiteness, are confirming the racist structures we are all subject to? What is my aim here? I

I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.