Quotes About Equality

If a girl wants to grow up to be a cowgirl, she ought to be able to do it, or else this world ain't worth living in.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

One of the other musicians said that the tambourine is a female due to the fact that it makes a pretty jingle and is designed to be spanked. That is the more recent, patriarchal attitude, I suppose.

Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?

The ones who're so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having 'auras' around them, they're usually people with average abilities and average minds. And below average senses of humor.

the greatest geniuses pee and poop just like the rest of us, but that in no way suggests that we are even remotely their creative equal, except perhaps in the confines of the toilet.

The law is designed to help us live. It has no other justification. If it cannot do that, if it operates only theoretically, the law will fail us." Senator Stevens stares

Well, he us a nab, he is mortal, death comes to us all, etcetera, and consequently he would have died anyways, sooner or later. Or to look at it from the social point of view - he's just one man among many, the loss would be well within reason and convenience.

It is plain that there are some things a girl is allowed to understand, and these include the whole of algebra, but there are others, such as embracing a side of beef, that must be kept from her until she is old enough to have a carcass of her own.

Being a person is respect, because you're not a cat or a dog or a bunch of tulips, you're a human person and humanness isn't like something there can be different amounts of, it's maxed out from the start, total respect every time - kill one, kill a trainload, you're dissing the transcendental is all.

God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

You don't have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Don't let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.

It's not about choosing somebody over her. It's about making space for somebody along with her.

I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight.

We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.