Quotes about Equality
In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.
— Booker T. Washington
that this was the first time in the entire history of the Negro that a member of my race had been asked to speak from the same platform with white Southern men and women on any important National occasion. I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.
— Booker T. Washington
It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.
— Booker T. Washington
It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
— Booker T. Washington
The wrong to the Negro is temporary, but to the morals of the white man the injury is permanent.
— Booker T. Washington
The effect of this movement, or revolution, as I have called it, is not to "tear down and level up" in order to bring about an artificial equality, but to give every individual a chance "to make good," to determine for himself his place and position in the community by the character and quality of the service he is able to perform.
— Booker T. Washington
It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that 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
It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.
— Helen Keller
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
— Helen Keller
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration is wrong. We don't want to live with the white man; that's all.
— Muhammad Ali
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
— Frederick Douglass