I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy – I don’t disparage envy, but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it’s equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
It’s just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it’s not two halves that make a whole – it’s two wholes that make a whole.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
At some point we have to stop and say, There’s Marlee, not, There’s the deaf actress.
Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken.
