Quotes About Equality

He] accepted me for what I was and it wasn't fair of him not to give me the same chance to accept him in the same way.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? (2 Cor. 2:15-16).

In ancient times only women could do math; men were thought too stupid. That's why the root for the word math is the same as for mother—they both come from the name of the Egyptian goddess, Maat. Mathematics literally means 'mother wisdom.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Everyone deserved a chance at a better life. And shame on his government for treating these people like criminals.

Only girls wear tights. - Nic responds, "Uh,uh. Superman wears tights.

Love cannot exist for long without the dimension of justice.

worse shape than you and helping the poor person. It's about a relationship between equals. You understand their suffering. You're completely in their shoes. It comes from softening our hearts, opening up to our own and others' pain. To me, that's enlightenment.

The real reason people oppose marriage equality is religious in nature. Marriage equality is therefore not only a civil rights issue, but also a separation-of-church-and-state issue.

Religion does not own activism.

Make no mistake, to a significant degree we are all victims of religion because we all have fewer rights because of it.

The more, and the louder, we come out today, the easier it will be for those who can't do so until tomorrow.

Money is a headache for both rich and poor people. They're simply different types of headaches.

If we witness an act of discrimination but do not speak up or intervene, then we tacitly support it.

In San Francisco, racism came at you with a smile.

I never could stand racism or indifference to poverty. That doesn't make me a lefty ideologue. It makes me an ordinary American.

Because if you left the straights to handle the party, it just wasn't going to happen.

We came from many different places, had many different pasts, belonged to a variety of races and nationalities; but under the boiling summer sun, when shade temperatures often reached the century mark, the heat beating our backs like hammer until I felt like a nail myself, we were brothers sharing sweat, building our own Jerusalem in a desolate place.

Every intelligent man saw the poverty that would follow the destruction of the beaver, but there were no chiefs to control it; all was perfect liberty and equality.

It must be admitted, truth compels me to admit, even here in the presence of the monument we have erected to his memory, Abraham Lincoln was not . . . either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man.

Grafton, Massachusetts, in early 1842, while working solo, Douglass was met by mob hostility in addition to an unwelcoming clergy. So he went to a hotel and borrowed a "dinner-bell, with which in hand I passed through the principal streets," he recalled, "ringing the bell and crying out, 'Notice! Frederick Douglass, recently a slave, will lecture on American Slavery, on Grafton Common, this evening at 7 o'clock."13

As white Christians become closer with Christians of color, we will become better interpreters of the presence of the kingdom among us. After all, despite suffering our society's racism and white supremacist assumptions, our siblings of color can still testify to the evidence of God's kingdom. Over time, we too will develop the eyes to see with greater clarity as we invite others to join in following Jesus into the kingdom he has made available.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?