Quotes About Equality

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality.

Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal.

Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare.

Dans la vie y'a pas de grands, y'a pas de petits. La bonne longueur pour les jambes, c'est quand les pieds touchent par terre. In life, there are no tall or short people. The right length for a person's legs is when their feet touch the ground.

Accepting and understanding difference is the key to progression.

No matter your religion, nationality, sexuality or appearance, we are as one; human.

Pre-birth we are all equals; post-birth we are as we decide.

Some actions transcend across all borders.

The Philosophy is as One, for All.

The Philosophy is for all; faith and faithless alike.

Those born with, have a duty to those born without.

Those who enforce laws must also abide by them.

We must learn about difference for difference to become the normal.

We seem to have forgotten that we are one; we are human.

Remember the words of the Bible in Amos 5:24, 'Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-falling stream'.

Our Fiji today is a new Fiji where individual freedom is protected and not a Fiji solely for Fijians. Wise decisions from this august house will promote multiracial harmony and true friendship.

Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?

This Bill is not about crime committed within one group of people but involves many races living in Fiji. Therefore we can not apply one law onto another. We need to protect the whole population; the different faiths; cultures and traditions.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

I just don't give a damn, woman. White or black, I want you for what you are.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn't matter where you came from but where you are going.