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Quotes About Equality

I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones.
~ Jim Harrison
It's like gender trumps ideas
~ Unknown
Peoples is peoples. -Pete-
~ Jim Henson
In one of his most famous quotations, King sadly said, "I am [ashamed] and appalled that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in Christian America.
~ Jim Wallis
The religious conviction that challenges us to see the image of God in every person is an absolute barrier to the practice of torture.
~ Jim Wallis
If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.
~ Jim Wallis
he reminds us of Christ. When he asks, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?"9 he reminds us of Christ.
~ Jim Wallis
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will see peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When The Power Of Love Overcomes The Love Of Power,,World Will Know Peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, they will ind peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, they will find peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overpowers the love of power, the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power thw world will know peace
~ Jimi Hendrix
Well, I see black and white and red and yellow, even green—getting together. And their weapons are shining clean—but I'm not talking about swords, knives, and guns. I'm talking about the power of God and the new rising sun.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Prejudice," Rickey told the table. "It reflects an attitude of a great many people in this country who don't introspect themselves very closely about their own prejudices. . . . You can't meet it with words. You can't take prejudice straight on. It must be done by proximity. Proximity! The player alongside you. No matter what the skin color or language. Win the game. Win all. Get the championship and the check that goes with it.
~ Jimmy Breslin
Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.
~ Jimmy Carter
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
~ Jimmy Carter
Perhaps all young girls should receive voice-deepening instruction, as they once had learned how to iron men's white oxford-cloth shirts and walk with books on their heads.
~ Jincy Willett
Some women fight and others do not. Like so many successful guerrillas in the war between the sexes, Georgia O'Keeffe seems to have been equipped early with an immutable sense of who she was and a fairly clear understanding that she would be required to prove
~ Joan Didion
Huey Newton laid down his life for us," Stokely Carmichael had said the same night. But of course Huey Newton had not yet laid down his life at all, was just here in the Alameda County Jail waiting to be tried
~ Joan Didion
About the cathouse: the notion that an accepted element in the social order is a whorehouse goes hand in hand with the woman on a pedestal.
~ Joan Didion
Years ago, if a white woman said a Black man looked at her lustfully, he could be hung higher than a magnolia tree in bloom, while a white mob watched joyfully sipping tea and eating cookies," Yusef Salaam's mother reminded readers of the Amsterdam News.
~ Joan Didion