Quotes about Equality

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

A right delayed is a right denied.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.