Quotes about Equality
And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.
- John F. Kennedy
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
- Frederick Douglass
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
- Joseph Addison
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
- Alice Walker
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Aristotle
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
- Seneca
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.