Quotes About Equality

The scale spun to the truth of it. The two women, together, had picked more than six hundred pounds of cotton--at two dollars per one hundred pounds, they made six dollars each, and a little change. They had picked three times their weight.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did.

No honorable man has just cause to fear a lawfully armed woman.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that. Rick Moody

Milk and his allies wanted their movement to signify hope. So he approached a friend, the graphic designer Gilbert Baker, who suggested a rainbow instead. "A rainbow fit us," said the man who became famous as the "gay Betsy Ross." "It is from nature. It connects us to all the colors—all the colors of sexuality, all the diversity in our community.

They reported how when he took over as president of Phoenix Country Club in 1949, he said if they didn't allow his friend Harry Rosenzweig to join he would blackball every name. Rosenzweig became the first Jew the club ever admitted. Left out of the tale was that another Jew wasn't allowed in for a decade.

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

If you'll cheat to win at golf, is it that much further to cheat to win an election? To turn a Congressional vote? To stop an investigation? If you'll lie about every aspect of the game, is it that much further to lie about your taxes, your relationship with Russians, your groping of women? If you're adamant that the poor don't deserve golf, is it that much further to think they don't deserve health care, clean air, safe schools?

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

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Many men of 1972 used the new "women's freedom" as an excuse for brutish behavior.

Same-sex marriage isn't a gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

I believe the greatest privilege in this world is to use your freedom of speech for those who have no voice.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Our country needs Federalism so that there will be devolution of power, and no other tribes will live at the expense of other.

Judge not lest ye be judged you fat motherfucker

assumption prevents us from acknowledging the full humanity

In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued.

don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budge no choice but to grant her space crown her with sky for she is one of the many and she is each of us

I do not boast the historical fact of belonging to a human race that has suffered a lot as some kind of medal, nor have I ever tried to derive moral advantages or reparations.