Quotes about Equality

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

Ladies, you do not have to submit yourself to any man abusing you.

All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.

The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the public so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do