Quotes About Equality

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

The Supreme Court kept me from my freedom.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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