Quotes about Equality

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

Truly blessed are those whose hearts know the peace of God; otherwise, the poor and the rich, the beggar and the king are all alike.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.