Quotes about Equality
The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.
- Paulo Coelho
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
- Barack Obama
This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.
- Barack Obama
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education.
- Nelson Mandela
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
- Toni Morrison
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
- Audre Lorde