Quotes About Equality

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

A marriage could not be happy if the husband was prettier than the wife, that much she knew.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Had you been born in a society that treated women as the equals of men, it would never occur to you that Miss Carter shouldn't lead a dig or that men would balk at her orders." "We have free will, but we are not free from original sin," Mr. Taylor said.

of their own, one that will not support suffrage, and I'm afraid the Liberal Party leadership may prefer their priorities. What good is fighting for women's rights if those rights don't include being able to vote?

You know, Winifred, you begin to make me wonder if all women should have the right to vote.

bloody Married Women's Property Act.

Conservatism is founded on the principle of equality of opportunity, not result.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Suronjon understood that this person who had built a world within herself, who had long stopped venturing outside her household, she who did not differentiate between Parveen and Archana, had suddenly been rattled. She too had begun to ask whether only Muslims felt fury, anger and pride.

And if you inquire for the good of your brethren only, what more have 21 ye done than others? is not this the conduct of the publicans also?

Para que no se me olviden las lesbianas. / So that I don't forget the lesbians.

He had said, hesitatingly, "Because they think we are different. So they are frightened of us." But what was different? thought the girl. What was so different?

Brilliance is an equal movements just as stupidity is!

All he could think of was how all people require attention. All people require respect. All people require acknowledgment. All people require love.

Since time immemorial wise people have been saying that all comparisons are odious. When we compare, we set up a winner-loser dynamic. If my crisis is greater than yours, then yours is belittled and insignificant. I say that's nonsense. Each crisis has its own power, its own unique reality.

The draft," he shouts, "is white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend the land they stole from red people. The draft must end: not tomorrow, not next week, but today.

White America has told Doc: We have created a space for you. We have allowed you to be the leader of your people for your cause. We have become comfortable seeing you in this space. This space has resulted in your receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But that leadership and prize do not allow you to address issues outside your space.

True democracy focuses on the public interest; it defends the common good and protects its citizens - especially the weak and the vulnerable. We maintain that no democracy can survive without the powerful notions of compassion and public service. The level of wealth inequality in this country has gotten so far out of hand, the quantity of compassion so diminished, that the very future of democracy is at stake." ? & Cornel West

That's your fate as a black man. Carried by six or judged by twelve.

it's rewarding to give a pretty brown doll to a pretty brown girl and watch her squeeze and kiss it. It's different from watching a collector take it away in a wooden crate.

Water always finds its own level.