Quotes About Equality

Unless you see de fur, a mink skin ain't no different from a coon hide.

You can't beat nobody down so low till you can rob 'em of they will.

If it wuzn't for so many black folks it wouldn't be no race problem. De white folks would take us in wid dem. De black ones is holdin' us back.

Once, when they used to set their mouths in what they thought was the Boston Crimp, and ask me about the differences between the ordinary Negro and "the better-thinking Negro", I used to show my irritation by saying I did not know who the better-thinking Negro was. I knew who the think-they-are-better Negroes were, but who were the better thinkers was another matter.

What would slaves want to be free for anyway? They are being fed and taken care of. What more could they want?

Jes' 'cause women folks ain't got no big muscled arm and fistes like jugs, folks claim they's weak vessels, but dass uh lie. Dat piece uh red flannel she got hung 'tween her jaws is equal tuh all the fistes God ever made and man ever seen.

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den? Dey bosses it deyself. You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks? Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation. Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

Anyhow he'll learn dat folks is human all ovah de world. Dats worth a lot to know, an' it's worth going a long way tuh fin out.

Jim Allen laughed just as loud as anybody else and then he said: We better hurry on to work befo' de buckra [white people] get in behind us. Don't never worry about work, says Jim Presley. There's more work in de world than there is anything else. God made de world and de white folks made work.

Ah ain't got tuh do but two things--stay black and die, Sister Berry snapped.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me.

Tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.

I don't see midgets as abnormal people.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

I think that's the beauty of living in America, right? We all get our own opinion, and no one opinion is absolute.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

A man can abuse his body a lot more than a woman can. And that's a fact.

Abuse is not love. That's no way to treat a woman.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

Any racism towards anybody, it's not acceptable.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!