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Quotes About Equality

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
~ Socrates
Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.
~ Jimmy Hoffa
Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
~ George Balanchine
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
~ Sitting Bull
You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?
~ Mary Edwards Walker
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.
~ Whitney M. Young
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
~ Guru Nanak
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
~ Chief Joseph
A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.
~ Eartha Kitt
Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.
~ Coretta Scott King
The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
~ Ida B. Wells
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
~ Tariq Ramadan
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?
~ Malcolm X
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
~ Chief Joseph
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
~ Linda Ellerbee
Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.
~ Amelia Bloomer
I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!
~ Ginger Rogers
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
~ Sarah Moore Grimke