Paul Martin Quotes

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Separate but equal does not work.

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

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

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

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

I don't like being treated differently.

The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.

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

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

We are a nation of minorities. In a nation of minorities, you can’t cherry-pick rights.

Rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

Equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens without distinction of color, sex or nationality.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.