Quotes About Equality

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

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 Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

Nothing about us without us.

There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

I'm dying, but so are you

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

I will be the first black James Bond.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.