Quotes about Equality
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
— Shirley Chisholm
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
— Jimmy Carter
Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray
— Madeleine L'Engle
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
— Conan O'Brien
Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.
— Marianne Williamson
The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
— Marianne Williamson
America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.
— Marianne Williamson
Archaeological evidence now argues for the existence of a twenty-thousand-year period of history when men and women lived as equals, with neither sex dominating the other. The earth flourished. The so-called feminine qualities of compassion, nurturing, and nonviolence were shared by men and women alike and were the most vital elements of social structure. Women were revered as priestesses and healers.
— Marianne Williamson
When we remember our royal inheritance, men will become our true partners, our kings.
— Marianne Williamson