Quotes About Equality

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...

It seems a fair test of any political movement to enquire not whether it is capitalist, communist or fascist, but whether it is fundamentally humane.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.

Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

A woman's mind and spirit are no better than those of the man she lies under in the night.

What the devil's a king but a man, or a queen but a woman?

You are not "inferior." You are not "superior." You are simply "You.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

It was wonderful to receive from my President, the Freedom Award and to know that I am a member of the group most recently bought and sold with everybody's agreement, and the people who longed for freedom. When I accepted that award, I thought of all the people who had come from all over the world to find freedom in the United States. I accepted the award for African Americans, every slave who got off every boat, every European, and every Asian who came here searching for freedom.

I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history, because it really is one history.

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome."

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.