Quotes About Equality

in every election their votes cancel each other, and they are as no one.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap at the ballot box.

Não é uma forma de esconder seu sentimento de superioridade? Ter pena dos outros não é se sentir superior a esses outros?

Literatura, bah. As mulheres já estão encontrando sua medida. Eles virão em seguida, acho que no futuro só vai haver andróginos - digo e fico rindo.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

My mother is bold in her caused," George said. "We have never had a runaway slave come to our door, but I too would help him. My mother and I were forced to leave North Carolina when we freed our slaves. The anger our former neighbors and friends turned on us told us much. When a person does what is right, it stirs the rage of those who will not turn from doing the same evil.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

A man without a vote is man without protection.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for a hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter—and to write in the books of law.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Freedom is not enough.

Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man. Because all Americans just must have the right to vote. And we are going to give them that right. All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race.

The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way.

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.