Quotes About Equality

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?

If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?