Quotes About Equality

What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

It's easy to feel equal to wanting. It's rare to feel equal to having.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Violence is not the way.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

Achievement has no COLOR.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

...We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.