Quotes About Equality

The ability for a woman to be free is connected with her ability to love another woman.

When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

Martin White, who stood up and said his piece. Claimed that he was a good Free-State man, but a free white state man, and he intended to obey the laws, and the rest of us should as well.

Father spoke up and said that he was an abolitionist of the old stock, that the blacks were his brothers and his equals, and that he would rather see the union dissolved and the

practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.

Fact number two: all women basically want to be wives and mothers—' 'No, honey, they don't. Sorry, but they just don't. My fifty per cent of the human race isn't a bunch of identical plastic dolls. We're human beings and we're all different and – incredible though this may seem to you – we don't all want the same thing

Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.

One of the reasons so many women say "I'm not a feminist but..." (and then put forward a feminist position), is that in addition to being stereotyped as man-hating Amazons, feminists have also been cast as antifamily and antimotherhood.

Enlightened sexism is a response, deliberate or not, to the perceived threat of a new gender regime. It insists that women have made plenty of progress because of feminism — indeed, full equality has allegedly been achieved — so now it's okay, even amusing, to resurrect sexist stereotypes of girls and women.

They intended to found and frame a government for man, and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all; to prevent the few from governing the many, and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.

your needs mean nothing to me. Just as history has proven that my needs mean nothing to you.

That"s because we don"t have any weaknesses. We"re perfect." She rolled her eyes. "Give me a break. If you"re so perfect, how come your gender hasn"t figured out a way to have children on yourown. Then you could free yourself from the weaker sex.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

The magic Prince she didn't believe existed wasn't a guy on a white horse; he was someone who understood he. Someone she understood. An equal. (Chapter 11)

her it is complicated fighting for freedom and justice, but necessary if they were to hold on to what made them human and not beasts.

with courage and resolve and the refusal to allow those without voices to remain unheard.

My weaker sex is still believed by most to be highly susceptible to fits and hysteria. I, being a woman, had better odds of becoming a future mental patient than of becoming a psychiatrist.

not only deprives workers of the fruits of their labour by paying them 1/200th of the salary that goes to their CEO (the international average as of this writing, not including bonuses and stock options); it deprives workers of the very meaning of labour itself

If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.

African American history in all its torment and glory is American history, and we cannot move forward until all Americans see it that way.

the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library.

The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the time to think of places that welcome everyone and don't charge any money for that warm embrace. The commitment to inclusion is so powerful that many decisions about the library hinge on whether or not a particular choice would cause a subset of the public to feel uninvited.

After the business at hand was completed, the head of the board, a lawyer named Isidore Dockweiler, turned to Jones and asked her to resign. As Jones sat dumbfounded, Dockweiler explained that the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library. He

and the hot topic: age.