Quotes on Equality

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

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

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

I might not be the same, but that's not important/No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it