Quotes about Equality

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Why were not these men of faith delivered like the others? Or, why were not the others suffered to be killed like these? Why should God's power interpose and rescue some and not the others? Why allow Stephen to be stoned to death, and then deliver Peter from prison?

Truly, God is "no respecter" of persons or He would not have saved me.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

Individuals cannot be free if there are impediments to reaching their full potential as human beings.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.