Quotes about Equality
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
— Frederick Douglass
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
— Margaret Fuller
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
— Charles Spurgeon
Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
— Booker T. Washington
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
— Booker T. Washington
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In all successful relationships, the man respects the woman - and it takes a special guy to handle a successful woman. You have to be confident in who you are and what you do.
— Laird Hamilton
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
— Walt Whitman
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
— Khalil Gibran