Quotes About Equality

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Truth doesn't screw around, and truth doesn't care about your opinions. It doesn't care if you believe in it, deny it, or ignore it. It couldn't care less what religion you are, what country you're from, what color your skin is, what or who you've got between your legs, or how much you've got invested in mutual funds. None of the trivial junk that concerns most people most of the time matters even one teensy-weensy bit to the truth.

Rather than revering supposedly special people for being Buddhas, we should revere the Buddha present in all people, whenever and wherever it manifests. D?gen talks about learning from anyone, no matter what their station in life, if that person says or does something wise.

In D?gen's view everything is sacred, and to single out one specific thing, like a book or a city or a person, as being more sacred than anything else is a huge mistake.

Life is not fair in that way or any other way. We are who and what we are.

It'll take a hell of a long time, but one day they will have their piece of the world, and my grandchildren will be going to school with their grandchildren or great-grandchildren. And whites will be marrying colored. And everyone becoming some kind of light shade if brown. That's what it'll be one day.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Respect is not just about treating others how you want to be treated, it's about acknowledging their value as a human being.

True respect is not just shown in how we treat those in positions of power, but also those who are vulnerable and marginalized.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

They will imprison you simply for who and what you are

A woman's strength should not be in her role, whatever she chooses to be, but in the power to choose that role.

Vin isn't…like other women." Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly. "I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

Is anything fair?" He smiled. "Death is. He treats us all the same.

Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

I say that there is no role for women - there is, instead, a role for each woman, and she must make it for herself.

They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.

I can't bully you," I said. "You're taller than I am.

Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?

Life was a tempest, whether you were a milkmaid or a queen. The queens were simply better at projecting control in the middle of that storm.

Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho," Lopen said. "Some of my relatives are women.

Well," she said, "I should think it would do every man good to have a wife who isn't as in awe of him as everyone else is. Somebody has to keep you humble.