Quotes about Equality
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
- Frederick Douglass
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.
- Giles Fraser
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.
- John Adams
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- James Madison
If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
- Jerry Falwell
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
- Edward Brooke
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
- Jesse Jackson
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
- F Scott Fitzgerald