Quotes About Equality

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

So here I was in San Francisco with a degree, and I thought it would make a difference. The first job I applied for was at American Insurance Company. I expected maybe a clerical job, but there were none there—those jobs weren't open for Oriental people at that time. Then I tried a ladies' apparel shop as a stock girl. That wasn't even open to me. Oh, they don't tell you right out to your face—but you have that feeling.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams.

On the trains, a uniform seldom represents what it purports to represent.

It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. If love comes from the heart, where does hate come from? Children aren't born knowing how to hate. They must be taught. Therefore, the lesson is simple. Let's not teach our children hatred and prejudice, because what they don't know won't hurt them — or others. PEACE IS PATRIOTIC.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

We are all Americans

If black actors played in a film, they had to appear in unimportant scenes which could be cut without problem when these films were shown in the Southern states.

It's not right to shoot someone because they're not intelligent.

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

Who we think we are can be stripped away forever," I make a poof gesture, "just like that. Right now, well fed, unthreatened, we have the luxury of pretending the Donners and the Nazis and the gang-bangers are someone else, but they're not. They're us; a veil's breadth away. There are no good guys and bad guys. People are people, all the same; only the circumstances change.