Quotes About Equality

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village. -African Proverb

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN

When women gain a voice in society, there's evidence of less violence.

People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason that people got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans.

It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase "the American dream." The American dream is not just a yearning for affluence, Adams said, but also for the chance to overcome barriers and social class, to become the best that we can be. Adams acknowledged that the United States didn't fully live up to that ideal, but he argued that America came closer than anywhere else.

The global statistics on the abuse of girls are numbing. It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century. More girls are killed in this routine "gendercide" in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century. In

Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas. —CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, Florence of Arabia

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you.

While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change.

We should not forget that in the '60s, George Wallace's motto was 'segregation forever,' and that he did nothing to deter bombings and other acts of violence and, by his actions, condoned them.

My grandmother had a motto that you should never look down on people unless you are helping them up, and I think that's a very spiritual way of living.

We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.

I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

The equality of men and women is not possible because both are different. A mountain is a mountain, and a river is a river.

Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.

It is my birthright, it is my political right, it is my democratic right, it is my constitutional right... that I must open my mouth... my voice... I can raise my voice.

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.