Quotes about Equality
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
— Booker T. Washington
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
— Edward Brooke
So who needs grace? All of us, the saint as well as the sinner. The most conscientious, dutiful, hardworking Christian needs God's grace as much as the most dissolute, hard-living sinner. All of us need the same grace. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint
— Jerry Bridges
We are all sinners and are on an equal plane with one another. So we cannot exercise grace as God does, but we can relate to one another as those who have received grace and who wish to operate on the principles of grace.
— Jerry Bridges
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
— Jerry Falwell
The effect? A remarkably disproportionate number of black babies are aborted. The abortion rate per 1000 women for whites is 18, for blacks 54, and for others 38.46
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.
— Ernest Hemingway
Your nationalities do not show when you are dead.
— Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
— Ernest Hemingway
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
— Andrew Jackson
A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him and prefers him in honor as the son of a King.
— Andrew Murray