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Quotes About Equality

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.
~ Wes Fesler
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
~ Ken Robinson
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
~ Booker T. Washington
No man however great is greater than his people
~ Chinua Achebe
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
~ H. L. Mencken
I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.
~ Jerry Brown
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.
~ Josephine Baker
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
~ Bobby Fischer
A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.
~ M. Russell Ballard
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
~ Zubin Mehta
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
~ Samuel Richardson
I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
~ Hedy Lamarr
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee
Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
~ Ida Lupino
Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
~ George Eliot
They had always told me that I wrote like a man.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man
~ Shelagh Delaney
Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
~ Robert Benchley
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
~ Quentin Crisp
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
~ Booker T. Washington
Macho doesn't prove mucho.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
~ Daniel Webster