Quotes About Equality

Men will never ovulate, gestate, lactate, menstruate, or go through menopause. Women who identify as men might, but that thing is different.

Pretending that we are identical, rather than ensuring that we are equal under the law, is a fool's game.

Men were taught to have so much pride, to go out into the world and make something of themselves. This Depression was deeply humiliating. Since women were taught that they were worthless, they took poverty and hardship less personally.

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

There is no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other than barnacles that attach themselves to higher life forms in some pathetic attempt to clean up messes? Tidy up what men have left behind- make the world a lovelier, better place for men. I would like to play a part in which I don't have a superior.

majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Frauen stünde gelehrt sein nicht? Die Wahrheit zu sagen, nützlich ist es: Es steht Männern so wenig wie Fraun.

Because dearest Lisbeth, I will not abide in a country in which my rights are not protected. If I am to be trampled underfoot, I would rather be a dog than a man. I am certain that, on this point, my wife thinks with me.

U zemlji u kojoj moja prava ne?e biti zašti?ena ne mogu ostati.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

Girls are so much nicer than men (apart from Tom-but homosexual).

Backlash, actually, by Susan Faludi

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle.

i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours, hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Blind people are just like seeing people in the dark. The loss of sight does not impair the qualities of mind and heart.

People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))

there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. My

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.