Quotes About Equality

Whatever the variations by race, class, age, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, being a man means not being like women. This notion of antifemininity lies at the heart of contemporary and historical conceptions of manhood, so that masculinity is defined more by what one is not rather than who one is.

During the early waves of the women's movement, lesbianism was seen as a political alternative, a decision not to give aid and comfort to the enemy (men). How could a woman be truly feminist, they asked, if she shared her life and bed with a man? (..) "For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture," wrote one woman, "is an act of resistance.

He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.

This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land

In a land where all slaves are servants, all servants are slaves, and thus ends democracy.

How can they look in the eyes of a man and make a slave of him and then quote the Bible?

If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and there was really no such thing as a foreigner; there were only free men and slaves. And so it was not even patriotism but a new faith. The Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin', and he said, well, he didn't know, but he must have some rights he didn't know nothin' about.

A Frenchman may fight for France, but the American fights for mankind, for freedom; for the people, not the land.

W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war.

The only answer to terror is an excess of democracy.

So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, I'm gay. And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.

Kings and philosophers shit—and so do ladies.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.

If you walk on stilts, you're still walking on your feet. If you sit on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your ass.

Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies. Even on the highest throne in the world, we are seated still upon our arses.

En la amistad, por el contrario, el calor es general, se distribuye por igual por todas partes, atemperado; un calor constante y tranquilo, todo dulzura y calma, libre de angustia o de aspereza.

El sábado pasado, el palacio del Gran Duque estaba abierto y lleno de campesinos para quienes nada estaba vetado, y se bailaba por todas partes en la gran sala. La participación de este tipo de gente es, a mi parecer, una imagen de la libertad perdida, que se renueva así todos los años en la fiesta principal de la ciudad (...).

How's things, man?" The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow. "Very good," said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn't have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.

Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.

in a classless society, I am not sure that we would still use this notion of justice

Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives.