Quotes about Equality

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

I had to look at white people as fellow South Africans and fellow partners in building a new South Africa.

We haven't got those dreams: 'I wish to become doctor or a lawyer.' Black people in South Africa have been barred in doing anything that would articulate their cause.

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.

No one should be harassed or mistreated because of who they are, who they love, or what they believe.

What I value is that I have been able to do some modest work to help women rise to the level of their potential.

Free markets, hard work, and morality will benefit blacks and all Americans.