Quotes about Equality

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are.

Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

In the United States everyone feels assured of his worth as an individual. No one humbles himself before another person or class. Even the great difference in wealth, the superior power of a few, cannot undermine this healthy self-confidence and natural respect for the dignity of one's fellow-man.