Famous Quotes

"I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future."

Susan Sontag on Equality

More quotes about Equality

• "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. on Equality

• "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

  Albert Einstein on Equality

• "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. on Equality

• "The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Equality

• "Fourscore 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."

  Abraham Lincoln on Equality

More quotes by Susan Sontag

• "Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

• "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

• "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

• "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

• "For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."