Quotes About Equality

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion that professes concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It well has been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends.

For Martin, social justice would not "roll in on the wings of inevitability" but would come through struggle and sacrifice. *

I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice;

Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

For King, the essence of democracy is the belief that each person is created in the image of God. "We will know one day that God made us to live together as brothers and to respect the dignity and worth of every man," he affirms.

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.

I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.

The fact is that no language can be truly alive that is not used by women.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

Words are forceful but fair, flexible, yet solid, strong, dependable. Words are multi-cultural, without prejudice. They believe in freedom, equality, equanimity. If a word were a man he'd be a man of his word.

We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.

Fair play is always expected in any game. Any job you work in is a game too.

People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.

The constitution is designed for equal protection of rights. Taxation is designed for equal distribution of rights.

The worth of a man is usually co-existing with a woman. The worth of a woman is solely dependent on herself.

Too much rights do not make everybody right.

There is no fair play in an unbalanced platform. But there is something that you can do about it.

These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. They go on and on with all this bullshit about 'sanctity' — don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

Every single time you set up a comparison between yourself and someone else, you lose, no one wins.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.