Quotes About Equality

What was wrong with being a girl? Was it really a man's world like my mom said? And if so, where did that leave us?

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. " — Chief Joseph, 1879

It is my perception that a true friend never relies on another's dream. A person with the potential to be my true friend must be able to find his reason for life without my help. And, he would have to put his heart and soul into protecting his dream. He would never hesitate to fight for his dream, even against me. For me, a true friend is one who stands equal in those terms.

Whatever different words you use to express [your scriptures].../ The mantras chanted may differ, but are not souls in want of salvation all the same?/ To divide and oppress people because of those differences is folly.

Why young women? Why not young men?" She smiled. "Because the history of this world is written by men determined to cast women in the worst light.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk." —Peggy Noonan

One can look at a plumber, a labourer, and say without a great sense of irony, 'He is a man, capable of the same heroism as Admiral Nelson or Saint Francis of Assisi.' But no one looks at a woman and says, 'She is a woman, she is capable of the same heroism as Lady Godiva or Anne Askew.' Our heroines are separated from us. So instead of trying to make Man accept us as daughters of heroism, we must raise all women to the level of heroines.

Don't be silly, Phryne, I'm an—' 'Invert?' said Phryne. 'Of course you are.' She said this as though he had just claimed to have blue eyes, as something utterly ordinary. 'And that means,' John persisted, 'that I am a sinner.' 'Rubbish,' said Phryne sharply. 'No one can help whom they love. I am positive that your God doesn't care a fig.

Bert was short and stout. Cec was tall and lanky. Between them, there was nothing that they could not reach.

women as a sex and particularly

I hate these wife-beating bastards. Got to be something wrong with someone who has to hit women.

Is everyone called by their first name?' 'Yes. Have you ever thought that by losing your own name in marriage you lose a good portion of your identity? That to become Mrs. George Smith is to be entirely obliterated except as an adjunct to, or relict of, Mr. George Smith? The one name left is the one you were christened with.

Civil rights demonstration in Washington, DC, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to crowd, June 14, 1963 (Warren

inclusive Jewish

to serve the majority of the Jewish community, even its entirety, rather than just those who are members of Jewish institutions.

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth . . . in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is . . . also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just. . . . It clearly names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived.

Wir sind alle Tiere

Well, we must all make do. Humans aren't born equal. Each of us must make the most of ourselves.