Quotes about Equality

His life is circumscribed by racist laws and regulations that cripple his growth, dim his potential, and stunt his life.

The struggle is my life.

Een mens die een ander mens van zijn vrijheid berooft, is een gevangene van de haat, opgesloten achter de tralies van vooroordelen en kleingeestigheid.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.

But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the green in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

We somehow have the idea that a person called to the ministry is called to be different and above other people. But according to Jesus Christ, he is called to be a 'doormat' for others--called to be their spiritual leader, but never their superior.