EQUAL’ITY, n. [L. aequalitas.] 1. An agreement of things in dimensions, quantity or quality; likeness; similarity in regard to two things compared. 2. The same degree of dignity or claims; as the equality of men in the scale of being . . . an equality of rights.
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“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable…. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle: the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther King Jr. in The Montgomery Story, 1958
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Date: August 28th 1963. From his “I Have a Dream” Speech at the Lincoln Monument
“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.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Date: August 28th 1963. From his “I Have a Dream” Speech at the Lincoln Monument
“I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.” – Martin Luther King Jr., December 10th, 1963 – In his acceptance speech of the Nobel Peace Prize Award
“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Date: December 25th, 1957 Delivered in his sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
“I Have a Dream” Speech Delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963
