Quotes About Equality

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.

And the female brain,' said the holy man, 'is incapable of grasping the first principles of geometry.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for… human rights.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.