Quotes about Equality

little is more precious in an affair for a man than being welcomed into a house he has done nothing to support, or more momentous for the woman than this welcoming, this considered largesse, her house his, his on the strength of his cock alone, his cock and company, the smell and amusement and weight of him — no buying you with mortgage payments, no blackmailing you with shared children, but welcomed simply, into the walls of yourself, an admission dignified by freedom and equality.

Never believe you're better than anybody else, but remember that you're just as good as everybody else.

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.

Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.