On the one hand the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it you're screwed.

Like it or not in the end it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying 'If you have your health you have everything ' and it's true. Old age disease - these are the great equalizers.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that if possible they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Education then beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men the balance-wheel of the social machinery.