Quotes about Equality

I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.

God speaks for the silent man.

God hates us, I said. Don't blame God for what ants have to do. We all get hungry. Congolese people are not so different from Congolese ants. They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive? When they are pushed down long enough they will rise up. If they bite you, they are trying to fix things in the only way they know.

How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

I was still a bit appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microbes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting for the dollies. We and our vermin all blossomed together out of the same humid soil in the Great Rift Valley, and so far no one is really winning.

Recently it has been decided, grudgingly, that dark skin or lameness may not be entirely one's fault, but one still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

The message sent to one is truly sent to all because everyone is a "one," and they know that if you treat one that way, all it takes is a change of circumstances and you'll treat them that way, too.

It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.