The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.