Quotes About Equality

The minute the judge saw Jennie in her little blue suit with the big red bow, and saw her signing back and forth with the interpreter, he would never, ever, in a thousand years, find her a menace to society and order her destroyed. How could he? She was just like a little person!

make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.

No, you don't destroy the rich—you do as Jesus did, and convert them.

That light of outrage is the light of history

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you'll never have your freedom.

Freedom is the realization that everything and everybody gets to be exactly as they are. Unless we've come to that point, unless we've seen that this is how reality sees things, then we're actually withholding freedom from the world. We're seeing it as a possession, and we're only concerned with ourselves. How good I can feel? How free I can feel? True freedom is a gift to everything and everybody.

It's just natural. It's not better than or higher than anything or anybody. It's simply the natural state of being. It's totally democratic. It's the inheritance of everybody.

Fear ye not The wrath of any man, nor hide your word Within your breast: the day of death and doom Awaits alike the freeman and the slave.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

When strength and justice are true yoke-fellows, where can be found a mightier pair than they?

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Equals make the best friends.

What are blessings in freedom are curses in slavery.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.