Quotes about Equality
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
- Thomas Jefferson
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington
No one is any more or any less important than you are.
- Marianne Williamson
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
- Jesse Jackson
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
- Barack Obama
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
- Khalil Gibran
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
- William Hazlitt
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
- William Howard Taft
Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.
- David Livingstone Smith
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!
- Chuck Smith
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
- Jesse Jackson