Quotes About Equality

Slavery is not the same as rain," she insisted. "I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.

A queen must listen to all," she reminded him. "The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

My brothers have my measure when it comes to fighting and dancing and thinking and reading books, but none of them is half my equal at lying insensible in the mud.

Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes … we have plenty, as do you.

Remember this, boy. "All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.

It is a wise woman who knows her place.

She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another?

Cersei always resented being excluded from power on account of her sex.

Jaime's golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps. His lantern fell and smashed, and the oil spread out, burning. "You are speaking of a highborn lady, ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.

Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,

A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both.

Woman?' She chuckled. 'Is that meant to insult me? I'd return the slap, if I took you for a man.

Men will always underestimate you and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely.- Ser Godwin

Everybody that was anybody had a stained skin. A girl without one was avoided by the young men; a young man without one was at a decided disadvantage, economically and socially. A white face became startlingly rare. America was definitely, enthusiastically mulatto-minded.

The Negroes have disappeared into the body of our citizenry, large numbers have intermarried with the whites and the offspring of these marriages are appearing in increasing numbers.

Ever' gal I ever seen you with looked like an ofay.

He had undergone the tortures of Doc Crookman's devilish machine in order to escape the conspicuousness of a dark skin and now he was being made conspicuous because he had once had a dark skin! Could one never escape the plagued race problem?

There was no other alternative than to seek his future among the Caucasians with whom he now rightfully belonged.

Without a Negro problem, Americans could concentrate their attention on something constructive. Through his efforts and the activities of Black-No-More, Incorporated, it would be possible to do what agitation, education and legislation had failed to do.

A lifetime of being Negroes in the United States had convinced them that there was great advantage in being white.

He was not finding life as a white man the rosy existence he had anticipated. He was forced to conclude that it was pretty dull and that he was bored. As a boy he had been taught to look up to white folks as just a little less than gods; now he found them little different from the Negroes, except that they were uniformly less courteous and less interesting.

This latest menace of Black-No-More is the most formidable the white people of America have had to face since the founding of the Republic.

few months, there grew up a certain prejudice against all fellow workers who were exceedingly pale.