Quotes About Equality

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?" Alanna shook her head, smiling a little. In the three years she had been disguised as a boy, she had learned that boys know girls as little as girls know boys. It didn't make sense—people are people, after all, she thought—but that was how things were.

All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too.

Don't we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?

Men don't think any differently from women—they just make more noise about being able to.

Numair smiled. "Their society is ruled by females. Each pack is led by sisters." "Sensible of them," Daine said, grinning up at him.

Me," she said at last. "You should pick me." "But you're a girl." It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. "So?" she demanded. "Even Captain Sklaw says I'll be a swordsman yet. I'm as good an archer as Alex, and he's a boy and a squire. I'm a better tracker than Raoul. And have I ever failed you? Back there, or when you had the Fever—" "I'm glad you agree

Niko, these women deserve better than to have a monster pick them off one by one while those who should protect them say it's alright if they die, as long as they don't spread the pollution of their deaths around.

Have you not discovered that when people, men and women, find a woman who acts intelligently, they say she acts like a man? - Character: Ali Muktab. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.

Sameness is a fearsome thing.

Not everyone can be equal in wealth, but no one should have to starve.

Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him

The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

And yet when you get right down to it, we're all the same—rich, poor, old, young, fat, skinny, white, brown, or purple—pick your costume, none of it really matters too much. What does matter is whether or not we take offense when we think we've been wronged, regardless of who we think we are or what costume we're wearing.

The purpose of revolution is to abolish unnecessary suffering.

different way of thinking and learning. People with autism are people first.

All people want to feel their efforts matter, and individuals with ASD are no different.

Do not allow a child or an adult to become defined by a DSM label.

The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here.

Can't I be purple?" Lady Alexandra asked. Billie looked at her as if she'd asked to have the Magna Carta revised.

But I never did, because it never seemed right, and I didn't want to settle for anything less than what my brothers and sister have.

It isn't fair. It isn't fair that it's me and not someone else, and it isn't fair that it should be anyone.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

If anything, the people who moved to Jonestown should be remembered as noble idealists. They wanted to create a better, more equitable, society. They wanted their kids to be free of violence and racism. They rejected sexist gender roles. They believed in a dream. How terribly they were betrayed.