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It is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love, than it would be to have hatred and prejudice.

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I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me.

From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Quiet Strength (2000)

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Mikhail Bakunin The Red Association (1870)

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

Milton Friedman

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflections and Maxims (1746)

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