Quotes About Equality

Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.

We are not men of hate, but we must be men of justice.

Jugée petite-bourgeoise par les gauches, la cause des femmes est aussi présentée comme le cheval de Troie de l'impérialisme ; et dans le meilleur des cas, comme soluble dans la libération de la nation.

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

When I was fifteen, the perfect world seemed a place of total androgyny, where you wouldn't know a person's gender until you were in bed with him or her. I've since realized that gender is so much deeper than style.

Accept All Humans As Your Equals And Let Them Be our Only Sect

Genesis 1:27 says, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; Male and female he created them." Thus, the image of God is not solely male, but both male and female, separately and collectively. Thus, we may know that men and women are equally the image of God. Perhaps humankind is the correct term we should use, suggesting that men and women together make up the image of The Divine.

I am meant to have justice!

tie it up." He called me a clone, Matt thought. He called me an "it.

These women were not ahead of their time-they were their time. And that legacy-Mary's-endures.

Why do law-abiding and productive human beings owe anything to those who neither produce very much nor abide by just laws? What philosophical or economic or spiritual justification is there for owing then anything? ...The question gaped beneath her, but she didn't try to evade it. I don't know. I just know we do.

A great man has said that racism is the biggest cancer of his lifetime. But just because he can't cure that cancer didn't mean he shouldn't attack it in small ways." "Martin Luther King?" I asked. Judge Potter shook his head. "Charles Barkley.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

It is unfair' was a perpetual cry of the Radletts when young. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent. (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader)

Sabes que ese manzano fue plantado con la tierra robada a los Rodilla-Herida por el gobernador del estado? ¿Acaso tú conoces que su savia se nutre con los huesos y pelos prisioneros de San Quintín? Did you know that apple tree was planted on land stolen from Wounded Knee by the governor of the state? Perhaps you know how its sap is nourished with the prisoner bones and hair of San Quentin? (de Un Manzano de Oakland, para Angela Davis)

Every human being wants to be seen, really seen, by another human being, not as a statistic in some sociological study, not as a casualty of poverty, not as a victim of a corrupt social structure. We can start by seeing both what is and what can be.

Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior

A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women's so-called rights.

Dimly, with her burning heart more than her mind, she began to understand why she had always liked gay men. They suffered, were persecuted, they were outsiders in a world where studbuck male heteros held all the power, they did not count, they were Other – the way women were.

for I could no longer think of him as lord, viscount, duke's son; he was my comrade now

believe in personal freedom, global warming, the right of every person to clean water and enough to eat. I believe every woman deserves an orgasm. Every time.

on "knowledge" vs "wisdom"] When you come right down to it, white women just think they free. Black women know they ain't free.

And though often forgotten, the more radical wing of the second-wave feminist movement also argued for fundamental challenges to the free market economic order. It wanted women not only to get equal pay for equal work in traditional jobs but to have their work in the home caring for children and the elderly recognized and compensated as a massive unacknowledged market subsidy—essentially a demand for wealth redistribution on a scale greater than the New Deal.