Quotes About Equality

If you're in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

The problem? There has been no parallel effort to help our sons become multipurpose men. The female-only scholarships and affirmative action for our daughters to enter the STEM professions is not matched by the male-only scholarships and affirmative action for our sons to enter the "caring professions" -- elementary school teachers, social workers, nurses, dental hygienists, marriage and family therapists, or becoming a full-time dad.

even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child's chance of dropping out of high school.5

Men are the invisible victims of America's violence.

it is more accurate and compassionate to understand that both sexes were working to promote life—women risked death to create life; men risked death to protect life.

The full reality has many layers, which is why it took a book to unravel. But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it's a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

The orders of society, in all well-constituted governments, are mutually bound together, and important to each other; there can be no such thing in a free government as a vacuum; and whenever one is likely to take place, by the drawing off of the rich and intelligent from the poor, the bad passions of society will rush in to fill up the space, and rend the whole asunder. Though

A lot of performers, if they go to bed with a woman on the road, they think of her as a slut. As a person and a man, what does that make them then? Lowlife or high living, you give as good as you get, and I don't think women's sex lives have a thing to do with the kinds of human beings they are.

There will always be the lucky well and the unlucky sick, but the division should never be determined by privilege—intellectual or otherwise. Among

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

I happen to believe that respect also has to be given, simply due to our common humanity. Since God created you, you get my respect.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

It's like God is trying to tell us something when the most beautiful people in the world are racially mixed.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.