Quotes About Equality

God bless the woman who'd invented air-conditioning. Okay, it might have been a man, but I'll bet you dollars to earthworms that a woman nagged him into it.

Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love

Male and female callings are not separate issues. They are interwoven, interdependent, and inseparable in the Bible. God didn't create a world where one gender can flourish at the expense of the other. In God's world, the true flourishing of one depends on and promotes the full flourishing of the other. In fact, God's kingdom purposes for the world hinge on how well we both flourish and pull together to serve him.

Boaz is not diminished, marginalized, or feminized in the slightest by being outnumbered and influenced by Ruth and Naomi. As a matter of fact, he only grows stronger himself through his collaborations with them.

I believe the church of Jesus Christ should be first in line to champion the empowerment of women and girls throughout the world to become contributing members in their societies.

Instead of an unstoppable force for good and justice in the world and a deadly threat to the Enemy, male-female relationships have been dismantled of power.

Feminists put a lot of emphasis on roles because they equate roles with inherent worth. But that is not a biblical concept.

There's a difference between restoring God-given rights to women and setting women above both men and God.

V.L.A.D.: Vampire League Against Discrimination.

When someone out there says that I'm not really human—what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

A person's got to fight for every single thing they get,' she said slowly. 'And I've noticed a lot of times that the farther down a kid comes in the family the better the kid really is.

Mick had heard Portia say that before, but she had thought it was a tale. How could a colored man be a doctor?

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle—the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

It is often the case that the true humility of Christ is not understood. It was not in having a low opinion of his own character and claims, but it was in taking a low place in order to raise others to a higher. The worldling seeks to raise himself and family to an equality with others, or, if possible, a superiority to them. The true follower of Christ comes down in order to elevate others.

A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.

The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery

Official military reports credited Montgomery with the Combahee River Raid's triumph, yet soldiers recognized this victory as Harriet Tubman's.

I'm not against having to work for someone; we're all working for someone really. We here, in this business, have our masters, but we do seem to have a greater amount of freedom allowed us than in some others, and I've always been against the hold one human being has over another, whether it's in employment or in the family.

Le tournant fut annoncé en 1931 par un ouvrage de Julian Huxley, zoologue à l'université de Londres (et frère du romancier Aldous Huxley). Il y rejette, précisément au nom de la génétique, la notion de race, « terme de pure convenance pour aider à appréhender la diversité humaine10 ».

There's fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.

Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.

Good girls always come second.

Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way.