Quotes About Equality

All we are is a species, like millions of others. I think it's dangerous to think otherwise.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Hitler and everyone else in the world, including you, are equally innocent because what you are seeing

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.

Charles Maddox noted that "when I am told that the flag means 'nigger on top,' and that I can't stand under it and cast my ballot without asking a nigger's permission, then I think it is time to rescue the flag from the infamy that threatens

Zavest, da ima tudi Zemlja pravice, v ?loveškem rodu sploh še ni prisotna.

When we curse a competitor or strive to disempower another person, we absent ourselves from reverence. When we work to take instead of to give, we labor without reverence. When we strive for safety at the expense of another person's safety, we deprive ourselves of the protection of reverence. When we judge one person as superior and another as inferior we depart from reverence. When we judge ourselves, we do the same thing.

Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

however, part of what it means for a democratic polity to accord equal respect and concern to all its members, is to accord to each person an equal opportunity (via communication) to shape the moral, political, and cultural environment in which they live, something that can happen only by embracing a wide, almost untrammelled right to freedom of speech and communication.

A woman is expected, first and foremost, to respond to every communication from a man.

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we're subjected monthly. Maybe that's why men declare war - because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.

Glissant: "For me, the arrival is the moment where all the components of humanity – not just the African ones – consent to the idea that it is possible to be one and multiple at the same time; that you can be yourself and the Other; that you can be the Same and the Different. When that battle ... is won, a great many accidents in human history ... will be abolished.

Why do they treat us like children? they said & I said why do you treat them like adults? & their eyes opened wide & they began to laugh & talk all at once & suddenly everything looked possible again.

One Child: I hope it will be said we taught them to stand tall & proud, even in the face of history & the future was made new & whole for us all, one child at a time.

Computers for the masses, not the classes.

To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation; male and female, self and other, life and death.

White people have all the watches, but Indians have all the time." But for most of us,

Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who ' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.