Quotes about Equality
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
- Malcolm X
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
- Cicero
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
- Pope John Paul II
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
- Herbert Hoover
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
- John Updike
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
- Dean Frazer
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
- GK Chesterton
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Audre Lorde
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
- Al Gore
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.
- Alice Hoffman