Quotes About Equality

When one clings to the myth of superiority, one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

The sexes in each species of beings . . . are always true equivalents-equals but not identicals.

Christabel Pankhurst

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

No man may make another free.

Let women be provided with living strength of their own.

They have rights who dare defend them.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

They (the blacks) had no right which the white man was bound to respect.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

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

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman.

Unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.