Quotes About Equality

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

In the early sixties, the notion that racism was not acceptable even in certain regions or certain clubs or certain circumstances—the notion that it could not be treated with moderation—was a notion largely confined to black people.

Do you think the people you preach to have a feeling of love?" the young man asked. "Well, I'm not talking about weak love," King explained. "I'm talking about love with justice. Weak love can be sentimental and empty. I'm talking about the love that is strong, so that you love your fellow men enough to lead them to justice.

The naked statement—a black man has been killed by a white policeman—is such a fearsome divider of the races that the people who preside over a city immediately try to cover it with details.

Look at this - an entire generation of Cinderellas, and there's no glass slipper.

It made me angry that people could simply kill other people, take what they wanted, and ignore the cries of the sick and hungry. The world wasn't like that— or it shouldn't be like that—even though I hadn't seen enough of the world to know what it was really like.

It turned out that we had slightly different perspectives on life,' she said. 'He thought I should become a housewife and generally keep my trap shut. And I thought … well, not that.

Death was a state of being, just like life. Why should one be better than the other?

The Bible was perfectly clear on this point: 'Woman shall be silent in the congregation.' What was there to discuss? Women had no business being members of the clergy.

it is rare, though, that a great wrong is committed by one people against another without some among the perpetrators protesting the deed.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

A person who isn't reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things.