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Quotes About Equality

Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.
~ Olympe de Gouges
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
~ Lucretia Mott
Women hold up the other half of the sky.
~ Thomas Sankara
God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
~ Annie Oakley
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.
~ T. D. Jakes
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.
~ Lucy Burns
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
~ Lee Maracle
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
~ Robert Owen
Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara
~ Charlotte Tilbury
Wherever women gather together failure is impossible.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.
~ Mary Edwards Walker
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.
~ Kofi Annan
Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.
~ Amrita Pritam
Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.
~ Shirley Chisholm
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.
~ Billie Jean King
I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.
~ Louis Farrakhan
...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
~ Kofi Annan
If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.
~ Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
~ Barack Obama