Quotes about Equality

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.