Quotes About Equality

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.