Quotes about Equality
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
- Pope John Paul II
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
- Henry David Thoreau
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
- Henry David Thoreau
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
- Henry Ward Beecher