Quotes About Equality

We have never been at war with ourselves. We never place the desires of the individual over the requirements of the collective.

If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it's by a single atom less. A single atom is all you need to make a very big explosion.

But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for categories. Everyone is everything. Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theater of your mind for the main role.

You require me," Atticus said. "To be your magic Negro?

It's Mississippi, stupid," Neville said. "They can do whatever they like.

You'd be a better Christian if you learned how to read, Ruby had told him. Cain's mark was a protection; if the mark was his skin color, then God must have turned him white, not black.

No men and women in heaven?" he heard a soldier behind him grumble. "If I ain't a man anymore, how's that different from just being dead?

I know you were here first," Letitia said. "I know you think it's your place. But you don't get to keep it all to yourself, not anymore. I'm staying. Dead or alive, at war or in peace—that's up to you.

For those wishing to vacation abroad, the agency could recommend destinations that were relatively free of local race prejudice and, just as important, not overrun by white American tourists—for nothing was more frustrating than traveling thousands of miles only to encounter the same bigots you dealt with every day at home.

The law's not for colored people, not down there .

The civil rights movement ended in a kind of negotiated compromise. Black Americans were granted legal equality, while white America was allowed to nurture and maintain an illusion of innocence, even as it continued to live in almost complete separation.

TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality. That

For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

Our prison population, in fact, is now the biggest in the history of human civilization. There are more people in the United States either on parole or in jail today (around 6 million total) than there ever were at any time in Stalin's gulags. For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

More and more often, we all make silent calculations about who is entitled to what rights, and who is not.

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating?

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

Nature, with equal mind,Sees all her sons at play;Sees man control the wind,The wind sweep man away.

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

All of these new "Big Brother" laws had been sold under the guise of combating terrorism and increasing security, but none of them dared to address the specific threat posed by Islamic terror. Instead, the federal government seemed to prefer to increase security by treating all Americans equally: equally as criminal suspects in a vast open-air penal system.