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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.

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

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.

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

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.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Equality, 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.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.