Quotes About Equality

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?

While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means that you are just as good as the next man but the next man is not half as good as you are.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

What's the point of merit that exists only to protect privilege?

To save our democracy, we must restructure our economy to make us equal Americans.

Critical theory upends the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual. These liberal values are an ideology by which dominant groups subjugate other groups. All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maintain those in power.

But to abolish assessments, as many Just Americans want to do, and then declare that we've achieved "equity," ensures that all students receive exactly the same lousy education.

Fair and fair, and twice so fair,As fair as any may be.

There are two extremes to be avoided, one is the disposition of the rich to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the poor. . . . The other is . . . the anxiety of poor people to get possessions of the accumulations of the rich, and to have them divided among them, and a general leveling take place.

Woman, you bray like an ass, and make no more sense." "Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man.

The women are the strong ones, truly.

Missandei: Valar morghulis. Daenerys Targaryen: Yes. All men must die, but we are not men.

You know I've always considered women to be people.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

When it comes to swords, a queen is only a woman after all.

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.

The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.

I left the next morning... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder