Quotes About Equality

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, w

His headstone said Free at last, Free at last - But death is a slave's freedom - We seek the freedom of free men - And the construction of a world - Where Martin Luther King could have lived - and preached non-violence

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

Freedom is never given, it is won.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.