Quotes About Equality

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

We are at a pivotal moment in our shared history. The global goals of a healthy planet, social equality, and economic opportunity for all are within reach. But we cannot prevaricate.

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.