Quotes About Equality

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.

No matter what sort of car you are driving or how fast you drive, we all meet behind the same red light.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

You begin to have the clarity to see injustice happening, but you can also see that injustice, by its very definition, is harming everybody involved. It's harming the people who are being oppressed or abused, and it's harming those who are oppressing and abusing.

In joy and sorrow all are equal, Thus be guardian of all, as of yourself. —SHANTIDEVA

there is nobody on the planet, neither those whom we see as the oppressed nor those whom we see as the oppressor, who doesn't have what it takes to wake up.

I don't know that men are better judges than women, said Florence, but they spend much less time regretting their decisions.