Quotes about Equality
I will not resort to violence, I will not degrade myself with hatred. I will return good for evil, I will love my enemies. Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It had evidently not occurred to her as yet that those who consent to share the bread of adversity may want the whole cake of prosperity for themselves.
— Edith Wharton
What do you call the weak point? He paused. The fact that the average American looks down on his wife.
— Edith Wharton
Here was no retrospective pretense of an opulent past, such as the other Invaders were given to parading before the bland but undeceived subject race. The Spraggs had been plain people and had not yet learned to be ashamed of it.
— Edith Wharton
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.
— Edmund Burke
The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.
— Edmund Burke
Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.
— Edmund Burke
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
— Albert Einstein
Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.
— Albert Einstein