Quotes About Equality

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'

Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

There is equality before God and there is equality here on earth. There is natural equality and there is the kind of equality that human society creates.

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

A closer examination of the facts would have shown that hordes of perfectly free men and women enjoying equal authority, status and access to resources of every kind, including each other's sexuality, have never existed and probably could not have existed. To paraphrase Hobbes, perfect equality, like its concomitant perfect liberty, can only exist when each individual lives alone in a desert, where it is meaningless.

In the early 1990s, for example, 300 million people lived in countries where men's life expectancy was higher than that of women. Today, the number is practically zero.

The fact that the Nazis constructed "polarized identities for males and females" and did not accept the feminist dogma about men and women being similar in every respect was said to be one of their worst misdeeds.

From 1939 to 1944 the proportion of students who were female went up seven-fold, reaching 49.3 percent of the total student body.

By 1908, future justice Louis Brandeis was able present the United States Supreme Court, in Muller v. Oregon, with more than 100 studies on the need to protect women against overwork. The strategy worked, and state regulation of women's work was declared to be constitutional. Yet notably, just three years earlier another court had rejected similar regulation of an industry in which men bore among the heaviest burdens, namely baking.[337

Whenever fewer women than men study a subject, then this fact is immediately seen as a problem. However, when fewer men take up a subject than women, as is the situation in fields such as foreign languages, most of the liberal arts, and some of the social sciences, nobody seems to care.

In 1945, out of 52 million American adult women only 19.5 million held jobs. Among married women, only a quarter did.[364] Though the image of Rosie the Riveter dominated propaganda, its link to reality was tenuous. In metal-working plants of all types, male workers outnumbered female ones more than three to one.[365]