Quotes about Equality

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

We must follow nonviolence and love.

Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.

The American dream works when our common humanity matters more than our interesting differences and when together they create endless possibilities.

Everyone eligible to vote should be able to do so without unnecessary inconvenience

Freedom is difficult…but we have never had to put a wall up to keep the people in.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

So then, we are all equally guilty, every day. How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?