Quotes about Equality

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault, and no merit, of my own. The cause of this may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas to which I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle.

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...