Quotes About Equality

Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.

We had to break those laws or agree to the slaveholder's image of us: three fifths of a human being.

Bisexuality means to me that I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND REACTION I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSIC OUT THE WINDOWS I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED NOBODY THIRST AND NOBODY NOBODY COLD I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED I WANTED JUSTICE UNDER MY NOSE

Entitled 'My Country and Its Appeal', she commented on China's cultural icon Confucius: 'His grossest mistake was the failure to regard womankind with due respect. We learn from observation that no nation can rise to distinction unless her women are educated and considered as man's equal morally, socially, and intellectually … China's progress must come largely through her educated women.

Theology that is not in touch with [the marginalized's] life experience cannot be living theology.

No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed.

But this isn't human! When has this country ever been human, Abelard? You're the historian. You of all people should know that.

LGBT members of society need not prove their legitimacy but only live significant lives that bring us all together.

There would be no energy crisis if man knew how to effectively utilize the power inside of women!

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

You know, I've never asked why it doesn't offend your feminist principles for me to carry this beast for you." I look at it as exploiting the oppressor," she said, with a sweet smile.

You can't condemn a whole group of people because of the actions of a few.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

They're calling being black a look? How progressive of them.

Let's not pretend there's no difference in how much the men get paid for doing the exact same thing as the women. Not going to change a thing pretending like I'm an ac-tor. Which is why I'm going to make my own movies and television. Acting is for those who want to be exploited by misogynist assholes.

Zombies are the proletariat. Long live the workers!

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

There are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.

There are, as always, social and political aspects to seeing nothing as well. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. found it perfectly natural to count slaves as 'nothing,' . . . Slaves, like machines today, were simply taken for granted. These days, we take for granted everything from homeless people sleeping in the street to telephones and computers. We have learned to renormalize these things as part of 'nothing.' Whatever is standard becomes effectively invisible.

I do housework," she said, "and I mend clothes. I'd do a proper job if I could. I'd have been a surgeon, like my father, except it's not allowed." He frowned. "It isn't?" "Of course not. Women can't be surgeons or clerks or lawyers or lecturers at Temple or merchants. There's not actually a law, but there doesn't have to be. People wouldn't stand for it.