Quotes About Equality

Since Native students often prosper in cooperative rather than competitive classrooms—as do a lot of female students, regardless of where they come from—I've been asked to talk about the feminist movement and efforts to change classrooms into learning circles.

What if heterosexual male teachers were prejudged as sexual abusers of children, in the way that gay males often have been (which would make more statistical sense, since heterosexual males are the majority of abusers of both girls and boys)?

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature.

Women still average much less in earnings over a lifetime than men do and have to pay back the same college debt.

Last week in an airport, a place I so often am, I noticed that the clerk who was helping me didn't ask me if I wanted a wheelchair, as I guess age guidelines required her to do. She just smiled and said she could see I didn't need one. On my return, another airline clerk looked only at her computer and so ordered a wheelchair, complete with attendant, that might have been needed somewhere else. To one, I was an individual human being. To the other, I was a group.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

And over time, the question I have to ask myself is this: What would I have felt had I known I was talking to a woman, not a man? Such is the divisive power of a binary called gender.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Let this message go forth from Houston and spread all over this land. There is a new force, a new understanding, a new sisterhood against all injustice that has been born here. We will not be divided and defeated again!"14

this country is transforming before our eyes. In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy. It may just be their fear and guilt talking: What if I am treated as I have treated others?

campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.

I remember with gratitude the banner carried by some very old and bawdy women who led the parade while I was a student: hardly a man is now alive, who remembers the girls of '95.)

if you've experience discrimination in one form, you're more likely to recognise it in another.

to making revolution, not just dinner.

As King ended his speech, I heard Mahalia Jackson call out, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" And he did begin the "I have a dream" litany from memory, with the crowd calling out to him after each image—Tell it! What would be most remembered had been least planned. I hoped Mrs. Greene heard a woman speak up—and make all the difference.

Also racism and sexism are intertwined—as Mrs. Greene and millions of others experienced—and cannot be uprooted separately.

We have become the men we wanted to marry.

Patriarchy in all its forms is still about controlling reproduction, and thus the bodies of women, which is why invading a female body is still less likely to be punished by law than invading private property.

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

Ng??i có quy?n lá»±c chi?m l?y danh t?, còn ng??i y?u th? hÆ¡n ph?i ch?u làm tính t?.

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

I discovered that Native languages, Cherokee and others--like Bengali and other ancient languages--didn't have gendered pronouns like "he" and "she.

not everyone wants the same thing. A just law can be flexible. To be just, a law has to be flexible. She has saved the day.

People nod at the idea that when God is depicted inly as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptising with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life.