Quotes about Equality

I think number one is what my mom and dad preached to me when I was a little kid: Just because you may have athletic ability and you may be able to play a sport doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. Doesn't mean God loves you more than anybody else.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal... is it cute?

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.

I don't like to see people get kicked around. You have to stand up for them.

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.