Quotes About Equality

Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.

Americans, they'll have a legal means to recover

As feministas querem reduzir a mulher a um macho mal-acabado.

If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.

for any fight to be successful, impunity had to be reined in.

From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.

En 1863, en Newcastle, el doctor James Hunt había dejado consternada a la audiencia de una reunión de la British Association for the Advancement of Science, al afirmar que los «negros» eran una especie separada de seres humanos, a medio camino entre el mono y el «hombre europeo».

Niall Ferguson

The reality, then, was that Indian nationalism was fuelled not by the impoverishment of the many but by the rejection of the privileged few.

the introduction of universal male suffrage in 1907.

El Japón en el que Hiro-Hito alcanzó la edad adulta era un país que admiraba a Occidente por su modernidad al tiempo que se hallaba resentido contra él por su arrogancia. Parecía que, para ser tratado como un igual, Japón tendría que adquirir también el último de los accesorios occidentales: un imperio.

The popular view was that (as in the 1790s) the blood tax – l'impôt du sang – should be borne by all

Consideramos evidentes estas verdades: que los hombres son creados iguales; que han sido dotados por el Creador de ciertos derechos inalienables; que estos derechos son la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad».

It's because they don't understand good sex has nothing to do with equality.

so why with a potential boyfriend does she think it's OK not only to let him pay, but to start off their entire relationship that way?

The aim of the people is more honest than that of the nobility, the latter desiring to oppress, and the former merely to avoid oppression.

can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire not to be oppressed.

For in every city are to be found these two opposed humours having their origin in this, that the people desire not to be domineered over or oppressed by the nobles, while the nobles desire to oppress and domineer over the people.

The people are more honest in their intentions than the nobles are, because the latter want to oppress the people whereas the people want only not to be oppressed.

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.