Quotes About Equality

Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

I don't mind it if blacks want equal rights, as long as they mean rights equal to a dog

And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know me at all. And make no mistake, "Who I Love" is every last one. I am every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you?...Verily I ask of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Respect is crucial to relational health.

our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime.

It was a world, in other words, that gave equal weight to modesty and dignity as to pomp, comfort, and splendor.

All the world, every creature. He put no difference between men in this respect, though you meet with them in the likeness of beasts, and devils never so wicked, never so abominable; as long as they are creatures, reach out the cup of salvation to them, if they will drink; open the treasures of grace to them, if they will receive them; agree with them for nothing but faith for justification, and profession of it for their salvation.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Eighty Years and More: 1815–1898, Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Indy Publishing, 2004

Jean H. Baker. Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists. Hill and Wang: New York, 2006

Gandhi: The Essential Writings. Oxford University Press: London, 2008

Laurie Calkhoven. Harriet Tubman: Leading the Way to Freedom. Sterling Books: New York, 2008

Blessed is the man who, having subdued all his passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil; for such an equality is called yoga.

Women living in America in the mid-1800s were the legal property of their husbands. A married woman had no right to property, no right to buy and sell real estate in her own name, no right to bequeath any property whatsoever to an heir. A married woman of the time had no right even to her own children. And, needless to say, she had no right to the vote.

I must concentrate all of my energies on the enfranchisement of my own sex! She had named and claimed her calling. Here is concentration of purpose. This declaration, as we shall see, unified her energy in extraordinary ways.

Geoffrey C. Ward. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—An Illustrated History. Knopf: New York, 1999.

Kathleen Barry. Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. First Books: Bloomington, IN, 2000

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

Lynn Sherr. Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. Times Books: Toronto, 1995

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind