Quotes About Equality

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

The true thinker is on the side of justice, of reason, of life.

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.

We have agreed to be equal in all rights and responsibilities. How much equal, we have yet to set.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Revolution is necessarily inspired in justice and carries with it the aspiration for justice that every honest man has in his heart.

San Josemaría fomentaba un clima vital abierto, en el que cada uno pudiera manifestarse sencillamente como era, y en el que se respetaran las opiniones de unos y otros. Detestaba la tiranía, «porque es contraria a la dignidad de la persona humana»

Would that I were a man,'" I said, quoting Sarpalyce's legend. "Except that I do not wish I were a man. I only wish that being a woman did not limit me so.

You and I are not held to the same standards, Andrew. People will forgive a slip, a weakness, a minor personal folly — when it comes from a man. They may click their tongues at you, even gossip about your behavior…but at worst, it will only reflect on you. "If I misstep, it goes far beyond me. Errors on my part are proof that women are unsuited to professional work.

Are a woman's wishes only fit to be considered when blessed by a male relative?

Democracy without women in power is not democracy at all.

AUNT SHADIE: I see you - and don't worry, you're not white. ROSE: I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English. AUNT SHADIE: White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.