1,457 Quotes About Equality


  • Author Rosa Parks
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    People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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  • Author Charlotte Brontë
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    You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so - and I think too that the mode of bringing them up is strange, they are not half sufficiently guarded from temptation - Girls are protected as if they were something very frail and silly indeed while boys are turned loose on the world as if they - of all beings in existence, were the wisest and the least liable to be led astray.

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  • Author Keith Ellison
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    America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on everything all of the time, but we select our leaders together. And when we don’t want them anymore, we get rid of them.

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  • Author Brian Whitaker
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    I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.

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  • Author Jeanne Theoharis
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    When asked what gave her the strength and commitment to refuse segregation, (Rosa) Parks credited her mother and grandfather "for giving me the spirit of freedom... that I should not feel because of my race or color, inferior to any person. That I should do my very best to be a respectable person, to respect myself, to expect respect from others.

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  • Author Bryant McGill
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    When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves.

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