Quotes About Equality

End affirmative action. We've had a black president, black cabinet members from both parties, a black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

If men were equal in America, all these Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as foreigner; there were only free men and slaves.

The pie is increasing in size, so everyone gets a bigger slice, but when the rich's already bigger slice increases in size, the relative amount of wealth accumulates more on the upper end, making the incomes of those in the middle and bottom feel smaller.

The Liberty Principle: It is a higher moral principle to always seek liberty with someone else's liberty in mind, and never seek liberty when it leads to someone else's loss of liberty through force or fraud. The Liberty Principle is an extrapolation from the fundamental principle of all liberty as practiced in Western society: The freedom to believe and act as we choose so long as our beliefs and actions do not infringe on the equal freedom of others.

If I make $100,000 a year and Elon Musk makes $100,000,000 a year and we both see a doubling of our incomes, while I should be thrilled at my newfound fortune of $200,000, if I compare it to Musk's massive $200,000,000, that comparative difference may feel worse, even though I'm better off and no one is worse off for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's fortune.

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."3 It was one of the greatest speeches of Dr. King's career

Once moral progress in a particular area is under way, most religions eventually get on board—as in the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century, women's rights in the twentieth century, and gay rights in the twenty-first century—but this often happens after a shamefully protracted lag time.

It's an uphill battle, especially because many religious people still believe that being gay is a sin and a crime and, therefore, by their logic, "if homosexuals are allowed their civil rights, then so would prostitutes, thieves, and anyone else." These words were spoken by Anita Bryant—former entertainer and orange juice representative—who now has the honor of an award in her name, to be given to lucky winners for "unbridled and unparalleled bigotry.

Women cannot compete with men in physical prowess. And why in the name of all that is sane should we? Why not rather have our ambition go into sport for health, endurance, and the mere love of it?

The life spark in my eyes is in no way different than the life spark in the eyes of any other sentient being.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not heterosexual, I'm just sexual.

Hate is wrong through any set of eyes

Constitutional applicability equal to U.S. Citizens under Law is as much for a one person solitarily as it is so for the masses. Tides will part to right reason and can do so of a single idea.

Straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls. Everyone just assumes that they do. But if you're gay, everybody makes this ginormous deal out of it. You practically have to hold a news conference and take out an ad in the newspaper. Why? Just because it's not what most people do? That doesn't seem fair.

Work is a sacrament. Don't despise anyone's.

In his essay "Equality" (1943), Lewis advises: "Watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers." In other words, those who debunk tend not to be straightforwardly critical, but usually have "an agenda" (as we now say); the opposition that debunkers have to things is not honest and reasonable but tainted by an inferiority complex, or small-mindedness, or some other intellectual defect.

What is this 'white trash'?" asked the model. "They're people just like me," said Trump, "only they're poor.

I can't say, 'I want to put a Protestant on the Court for better representation.' No, you can't say that. But I should be able to. You should be able to have the main religion in this country represented on the Supreme Court.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes.

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition—and perchance to some excess—I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.