Quotes About Equality

Wives should be kissed - not heard.

Get out of the way of justice. She is blind.

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.

You have become like us,disgraced and mortal.

There will always be people who say mean words because you are different, and sometimes their minds cannot be changed. But there are many more people who do not judge others based on how they look or where they are from. Those are the people whose words truly matter.

A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others.

Mary Daly, author of Beyond God the Father, points out that the model of the universe in which a male God rules the cosmos from outside serves to legitimize male control of social institutions.

Happiness is a private good, justice a public good.

I realized I wanted a just world here on earth, not a just paradise somewhere else.

Feminism has two sides: Along with the struggle against oppression, it's also always been about taking female experiences seriously. After all, women haven't been twiddling their thumbs for the last ten thousand years; they have been raising the entire population of the earth. And the insights they have attained from that are just as valuable as the tradition of mostly solitary male philosophers and theologians.

I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

The true essence of freedom is that it can never restrict the freedom of another.

Früher hatte der Mensch nur einen Körper und eine Seele. Heute braucht er noch einen Pass dazu, sonst wird er nicht wie ein Mensch behandelt.

She did not want to dominate, but, on the other hand, she would not allow herself to be dominated or even influenced by others.

a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.

what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating for a house of our own. He put it to my mother. "We ain't poor, so why should we live like we are?" My mother sent up a wail. "Leave Miss Brookie?" One thing my mother kept hold of: There was to be

To be continually underestimated is a woman's lot.

We cannot expect the men we appoint to govern us, to be better than ourselves.

It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.

One missionary warned a Naskapi man that if he did not impose tighter controls on his wife, he would never know for sure which of the children she bore belonged to him. The Indian was equally shocked that this mattered to Europeans. "You French people," he replied, "love only your own children; but we love all the children of our tribe."17

But a woman's right to leave a marriage can also be a lifesaver for men. The Centers on Disease Control reports that the rate at which husbands were killed by their wives fell by approximately two-thirds between 1981 and 1998, in part because women could more easily leave their partners.32

Cooper took his hat off and swiped his forehead. Finally he spoke. "Well, Frank, to my mind, what a woman does or doesn't do should be up to the woman. She should be who she is, not what others expect her to be." It's her land. As far as I'm concerned she's the boss.

No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.

Sane women did not marry tyrants.