Quotes About Equality

Without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.

stewardesses of the 1960s had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), trying to change the "no men, no marriage" policy of their job. Aileen Hernandez, the only female or African American on the EEOC, supported them. Years later they finally won, but the airlines called the ruling "improper" because Hernandez, after leaving the EEOC, had become president of the National Organization for Women. A judge actually agreed.

You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

To the religious right wing and much of the mainstream, we were defying God, family, and the patriarchy they decreed. To the left wing and some in the mainstream, bringing up bias against females was a distraction from struggles over class, race, and other issues that were taken more seriously, because they also affected men.

self-esteem as the prerequisite for democracy – and for equal power within a democracy

Nonetheless, all the excuses of my conscious mind couldn't keep my unconscious self from catching the contagious spirit of those women who picketed the Oak Room. When I faced the hotel manager again, I had glimpsed the world as if women mattered.

Judy Collins sings about in "The Blizzard," or read Alice Walker's essay "My Father's Country Is the Poor." Each

If, in monotheism, God is man, man is God. Why does God look suspiciously like the ruling class? Why is Jesus, a Jewish guy from the Middle East, blond and blue-eyed?

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

I hope the day will come when everyone can have books that tell the truth.

The problem isn't that the world isn't fair enough. It is, we aren't truthful enough.

The world is neither fair nor unfair, the question is whether you are fair to yourself.

Truth makes privilege

We didn't determine the race but with determination, we can determine the race.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Iznad naroda je ljudskost.

Las sociedades más agradables son aquellas en que reina un sereno respeto mutuo entre sus miembros

Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say — but I can say they are certainly no worse.