Quotes About Equality

No juzgo a nadie, ni siquiera a mí mismo

If the Axis had lost the war, we'd be able to say and write anything we wanted, like we used to; we'd be one country and we'd have a fair legal system, the same one for all of us.

Speaking for myself, I've always found great intelligence in a woman a highly attractive feature.

You forget I am a woman, Your Eminence, and thus not so subtle as a prince of the Church.

Does the tree say to the sparrow "Get out, you don't belong here?" Does the tree say to the hungry man "This fruit is not for you?" Does the tree test the loyalty of the beasts before it allows them into the shade?

Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

Why can't Jews with their Jewish problems be human beings with their human problems?

And who's next, Mr. and Mrs. America, now that the Bill of Rights is no longer the law of the land and the racial haters are running the show

the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity

No one is more empowered by free speech than the historically marginalized and dispossessed. I'll repeat Frederick Douglass's declaration from 1860: free speech is the "great moral renovator of society and government." He argued that "slavery cannot tolerate free speech" and that "five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South.

To put this immense time period in perspective, the Thirteenth Amendment—which abolished slavery—was ratified on December 6, 1865. We will have to live on this continent more than eighty additional years before the time after slavery will match in length the time during slavery. And if you include the century of Jim Crow that existed before the passage of the Civil Rights Acts in 1964, formal legal subjugation of African Americans endured for a stunning 345 years.

With all due respect to this court, we've had to deal with so many other monkeys in so many other courtrooms, we felt it was only appropriate to bring in our own, so we could compete on equal terms.

In American history, racism has not been a constant but a variable which came, went and came again.

One of the most stubborn myths of American history is the idea that the frontier promoted equality of material condition.

The people of the southern highlands have been remarkably even-handed in their antipathies—which they have applied to all strangers without regard to race, religion or nationality.

One pro-slavery writer in New York spoke for many slave owners when he said that emancipation and civil rights for freed slaves would be "the total subversion of OUR liberties.

Only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act

Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

From the moment of its founding Americans began freeing their slaves—some 500,000 by the early 1800s—and in 1808 outlawed the slave trade entirely.

social justice" in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person's achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power.

you for or against the equality of human beings?

The regime of social justice, of which the left dreams, is a regime that by its very nature must crush individual freedom.

promote the teaching in mosques and madrassas that Muslims must coexist peacefully as equals with infidels on a permanent basis. And they could oppose blasphemy laws, such as the anti-Islamophobia resolutions they are promoting, which are a direct assault on the American Bill of Rights.