Quotes About Equality

In our custom a man is not expected to go down on his knees and knock his forehead on the ground to his wife to ask her forgiveness or beg a favor. But, a wise man knows that between him and his wife there may arise the need for him to say to her in secret: I beg you.

For whom is it well, for whom is it well. There is no one for whom it is well.

wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

DISARM ALL RAPISTS But what will we do With their legs?

If they can put one man on the moon, why can't they put them all there?

A best-seller and a neverseller are just two entries in a database; equal in the eyes of technology and the economics of storage.

Por primera vez en la historia, los productos de mayor éxito y los nichos están en un mismo nivel económico, simples

She was sent to the scaffold because she had a sharper tongue and a shrewder mind than her accusers. It is always the case when men hang women.

there is nothing that frightens that man more than a woman who does not live happily under a man's thumb.

A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.

Drones were such a guy thing, she thought. It was downright chromosomal.

More important, that second question assumes that gender is all about sex, or that sexual preference is at the core of our gender. I can't speak for other transsexuals, but there is no way on God's green earth I would

Allah dwells in all men, even the infidel," he says.

All of the movements that opened up the democratic space in America—the abolitionists, the suffragists, the labor movement, the communists, the socialists, the anarchists, and the civil rights movement—developed a critical mass and militancy that forced the centers of power to respond. The platitudes about justice, equality, and democracy are just that. Only when ruling elites become worried about survival do they react. Appealing to the better nature of the powerful is useless.

Money has replaced the vote.

In a traditional democracy, the liberal class functions as a safety valve. It makes piecemeal and incremental reform possible. It offers hope for change and proposes gradual steps toward greater equality. It endows the state and the mechanisms of power with virtue.

When it shall be said in any country in the world, 'My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of happiness—when these things can be said," wrote Paine, "then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.

He asked the American revolutionaries "with what consistency, or decency," they could "complain so loudly of attempts to enslave them, while they hold so many hundred thousands in slavery.

Journalism is about giving a voice to those who without us won't have a voice

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

I think with 'Hamilton,' Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It's miraculous. You look at '1776,' it's a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at 'Hamilton,' and it's just the faces of America.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.