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Quotes About Equality

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
~ H. L. Mencken
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
~ Huda Sha'arawi
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
~ Isaac Watts
If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
~ James Dobson
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
~ Joseph Priestley
I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
~ Karen Bass
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.
~ Langston Hughes
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!
~ Leo Tolstoy
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
~ Leon Jaworski
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
~ Ludwig von Mises
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
~ Mark Twain
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.
~ Neal Stephenson
My son, in the eyes of Heaven, we are all as little children. No one of us is more important than another. In fact, the more important we think we are, the less we stand out in the eyes of the Lord.
~ Neal Stephenson
Is it Protestant money or Catholic money you're after?" I ask. "It does not matter," he says. "Not where I come from." "Where in God's name do you come from?" I ask again. "May I go there with you? Because in the name of Our Lord's mammy, if I could be someplace where money's got no religion and religion's got no money, I'd be a happier woman.
~ Neal Stephenson
She was just in the process of proving them all desperately wrong. But at this phase, the all-male society of bitheads that made up the power structure of Black Sun Systems said that the face problem was trivial and superficial. It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.
~ Neal Stephenson
In any soul, the Condemned Man argued, was the ability to create a whole world, as big and variegated as the one that he and the Magistrate lived in. But if this was true of the Innocent, it was true of the Condemned Man as well, and so he should not—no one should ever—be put to death.
~ Neal Stephenson
Since most hackers are white males, their companies are disaster areas when it comes to diversity, and it follows that all of the diversity must be concentrated in the one or two employees who are not hackers.
~ Neal Stephenson
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. —Confucius
~ Neal Stephenson
Because in the name of Our Lord's mammy, if I could be someplace where money's got no religion and religion's got no money, I'd be a happier woman.
~ Neal Stephenson
What the world needs most is one God and one square meal!
~ Neal Thompson
People have a right to basic survival. Even if they do nothing. Even if they contribute nothing. Survival with dignity is one of the basic rights of life. I have given you enough resources to be able to guarantee that to everyone. All you have to do is share.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Difficult as it may be for some people to imagine, God does not, we repeat here for emphasis, prefer Baptists over Hindus, Catholics over Jews, Muslims over Mormons, or any religion over any other religion. God does not even prefer those who believe in God over those who do not believe in God. These are not God's ideas. These are the ideas of human beings who think that these are God's ideas.
~ Neale Donald Walsch