Bryant H. McGill Quotes

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Equality is a monster.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

…Anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.

All men are created unequal.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.