Quotes About Equality

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform to let those kids know that their lives are important. That their lives matter to us.

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

Con ng??i sinh ra không có giai c?p. NÆ°á»›c m?t c?a ng??i nào cÅ©ng m?n, máu c?a ng??i nào cÅ©ng ??. Chia ng??i ra thành giai c?p ?? mà k? th? l?n nhau Ä'ó là má»™t Ä'i?u sai l?m.

When you suffer because of discrimination, there's always an urge to speak out. But even if you spend a thousand years speaking out, your suffering won't be relieved. Only through deep understanding and liberation from ignorance can can you be liberated from your suffering.

There's no feeling of superiority, of inferiority, or even of equality.

My temple followed the Zen tradition; therefore every one of us from the highest monk to the newest member equally followed the principle of no work, no food.

There's a tradition in Asia of treating your partner with the respect you would accord a guest. This is true even if you have been with your loved one for a long time. The other person always deserves your full respect.

The clause that grants all "persons" equal protection under the law, in context, seems to apply pretty clearly only to human beings "born or naturalized" in the United States of America. But fate and time and the conspiracies of great wealth and power often have a way of turning common sense and logic on its head

America is the only developed country in the world that doesn't recognize healthcare as a human right, the only country with more than two-thirds of its population lacking access to affordable healthcare, and the only country in the developed world that has, since its founding, continuously enslaved and legally oppressed and disenfranchised a large minority of its population because of their race.

because in the end nothing matters all that much , as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same .

treat them with humanity, not because we sought their gratitude or wanted to show how generous in spirit we were, but simply because our experience should have taught us to empathize with human beings in need, regardless of who they were.

Literary works are not democracies. We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal. We may, but the country of Novels, Etc., doesn't. In that faraway place, no character is created equal. One or two of them get all the breaks; the rest exist to get them to the finish line.

I am not a fool, you know, although I am a woman, and have my woman's moments.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

What are my books but one plea against man's inhumanity to man --to woman-- and to the lower animals?

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference.

we know very well women scarcely ever jilt men; 'tis men who jilt us.

I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?—Job xii. 3.

tal vez me interesara saber por qué... por qué sale el sol lo mismo para el bueno que para el malo

When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. My