Quotes About Equality

There are no small lives, there are no small stories, there are no small people.

With ever watchful eyes and bearing scars, visible and invisible, I headed North, full of a hazy notion that life could be lived with dignity, that the personalities of others should not be violated, that men should be able to confront other men without fear or shame, and that if men were lucky in their living on earth they might win some redeeming meaning for the having struggled and suffered here beneath the stars.

If only ten or twenty Negroes had been put into slavery, we would call it injustice, but there were hundreds of thousands of them throughout the country. If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.

Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!

Cross felt that at the heart of all political movements the concept of the basic inequality of man was enthroned and practiced, and the skill of politicians consisted in how cleverly they hid this elementary truth and gained votes by pretending the contrary

There would have to hover above him, like the stars in a full sky, a vast configuration of images and symbols whose magic and power could lift him up and make him live so intensely that the dread of being black and unequal would be forgotten; that even death would not matter, that it would be a victory

How soon will someone speak the word the resentful millions will understand: the word to be, to act, to live?

There isn't any Negro problem; there is only a white problem.

And when I contemplated the area of No Man's Land into which the Negro mind in America had been shunted I wondered if there had ever existed in all human history a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.

If this state of affairs had lasted for two or three years, we could say that it was unjust; but it lasted for more than two hundred years. Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.

What quality of will must a Negro possess to live and die with dignity in a country that denied his humanity? There took shape in my mind—

The white man's God is just like the white man. He thinks he is the only God, just like the white man thinks he is the only man.

All these white folks dressed so fine Their ass-holes smell just like mine ...

My life as a Negro in America had led me to feel—though my helplessness had made me try to hide it from myself—that the problem of human unity was more important than bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a common bond uniting men, without a continuous current of shared thought and feeling circulating through the social system, like blood coursing through the body, there could be no living worthy of being called human.

All gotter be equal,' he pronounced fiercely, 'all gotter have lots of money. All 'uman beings. That's sense, isn't it? Is it sense or isn't it?

She's out of my league, but if she has herpes... That puts us in the same league! The herpes league!

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Annabeth frowned. Percy's sword is a she? Jack laughed. Well, duh . Percy studied Riptide, though I could've told him from experience it was almost impossible to tell a sword's gender by looking at it. I don't know, he said. Are you sure -? Percy, said Alex. Respect the gender. Okay, fine, he said. It's just kinda strange that I never knew. On the other hand, Annabeth said, you didn't know the pen could write until last year. That's low, Wise Girl.

Yes, Jason Grace. Favonius arched an eyebrow. I fell in love with a dude . Does that shock you?

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be able to hit as hard as we like, shouldn't we?

Respect the gender.