Quotes About Equality

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Power is neither male or female.

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

It's amazing what flipping a grown man over her shoulder does for a girl.

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations.