Quotes about Equality

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Everyone is born equal; we will all die and shed our earthly glory. Riches, power and fame last for only a few short years. Why do we cling so desperately to these fleeting things? Why can't people who have more than enough for their own needs give the rest to their fellow human beings? Why should anyone have to have such a hard life for those few short years on earth?

And now I have a question for you. 'Do you also put clothes on the flowers you've picked and refuse to talk about their delicate parts?' I don't think there's a very big difference between people and nature, and since we're also a part of nature, why should we be ashamed of the way nature made us?

Everyone is born equal; we all come into the world helpless and innocent. We all breathe the same air, and many of us believe in the same God. And yet … and yet, to many people this one small difference is a huge one! It's huge because many people have never realized what the difference is, for if they had they would have discovered long ago that there's actually no difference at all!

One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!