Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Copy Quote View & ShareThese men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Copy Quote View & ShareWomen will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Copy Quote View & ShareEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Copy Quote View & ShareEquality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Copy Quote View & ShareNo struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Copy Quote View & ShareMartin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
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