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Quotes About Equality

My greatest challenge as a teacher educator has been to help white students and students of color understand that racism is not simply a personal attitude or individual disposition and that feeling guilty or "being nice" are not enough to combat racism.
~ Sonia Nieto
i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.
~ Sonia Sanchez
And you told us: the storm is rising against the privileged minority of the earth, from which there is no shelter in isolation or armament and you told us: the storm will not abate until a just distribution of the fruits of the earth enables men (and women) everywhere to live in dignity and human decency.
~ Sonia Sanchez
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases…. I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Mais le racisme n'est qu'un manque d'imagination. Et au fond, manquer d'imagination c'est être sérieusement "handicape mental".
~ Sony Labou Tansi
There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.
~ Sophia Bush
Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.
~ Sophia Loren
Emancipationen ville være mere troværdig, hvis den ikke så hyppigt blev repræsenteret af kvinder, der har kommet til kort i kærligheden.
~ Sophia Loren
La fantasia dell'uomo è l'arma migliore della donna.
~ Sophia Loren
Feeling his heart, it occurs to me that it beats just like everyone else's. Like mine.
~ Sophie Jordan
Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Bombs and bullets don't discriminate.
~ Sophie Masson
Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture.
~ Sophie Page
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
~ Sophocles
O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!
~ Sophocles, Oedpius Rex
a perception presaged in the medieval Kabbalistic work, the Bahir, "it is impossible for the lower world to endure without the female.
~ Sorita d'Este
Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.
~ Soyen Shaku
To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.
~ Spanish proverb
Communism will win.
~ Spenser Rapone
Spice Girls (Group)
~ Girl Power!