Quotes About Equality

Fuck you. I am more than just a pair of ovaries you can put a ring on.

How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid?

Vocês são todos uma e a mesma espécie, têm os mesmos objectivos, os mesmos sonhos, os mesmos medos... Comem a mesma comida, dormem o mesmo sono... Por isso vão contra a vossa natureza quando se dividem para tornar mais fácil matarem-se uns aos outros. Países, bairros, credos, nomes, partidos, clube. Vocês matam-se uns aos outros por um par de ténis.

You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female. McNab? Eve said. Yes, sir. Shut up. It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple. A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.

I can handle it. But it stinks, if you ask me, really stinks, that you get to go out somewhere drinking beer while I'm stuck at Baby Central. Just because you have a penis. We'll think fondly of you over beer, me and my penis. She ate a little more, then smiled slowly. You've still got to be in the birthing room when she pushes it out. Shut up, Eve. Your penis won't save you then, Pal.

Just shut your mouth, you ignorant twat. Aw, Dallas, he called me a twat. How come you get to be a bitch, but I only get to be a twat. It's the rank, Eve told her. You'll make bitch one day. Thanks. That means a lot to me.

A banner hung over the break-room door, facing out so any who came in would see the sentiment: NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE, BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD.

No matter your race, creed, sexual orientation, or political affiliation, we protect and serve. Because you could get dead.'" "Even if you were an asshole. We added an addendum." On

Love, Eve thought, came in all colors, shapes, and sizes.

If men had to wear heels, they'd be outlawed across the land.

The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were—sex, race, tax bracket—death leveled it all out.

Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.

Our differences are only skin deep, but our sames go down to the bone.

We're all-inclusive in Homicide, 'cause whatever your race, color, or creed, you can get dead.

NO MATTER YOUR RACE, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, WE PROTECT AND SERVE, BECAUSE YOU COULD GET DEAD.

It seemed only fair.

taught him never to look at skin—the color of skin is nothing. We're all God's children. He was a good boy. I told him, he had to work, that all of us must earn our way. So he took the work there, there where they killed him. Because I told him to.

Both men refer to Carly Fisher as a girl—a small thing, maybe, but it shows an innate lack of respect for females in the workplace.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

El espacio es sólo espacio, la vida sólo es vida, igual en todas partes.

People don't divide themselves on important and unimportant... I have my own life, important to me equally as is yours to you, and in my life I the one who decides.

y si tengo algún derecho es el derecho a que no me juzgues de este modo, a no tener que justificarme: ni ante ti ni ante nadie.

Pues bien: en contra de tu parecer, las personas no se dividen en principales y secundarias. Yo no soy una secundaria. Tengo mi propia vida, que para mí es tan importante como para ti la tuya, y en mi vida soy yo quien toma las decisiones.

Sin embargo, y regreso a mi primera pregunta, ¿acaso es bueno que el imperio de la ley no conceda excepciones? Si la ley se aplica sin excepciones, ¿qué lugar queda para la compasión?