"People can only live with their equals,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.
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“I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.”
“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.”