Quotes About Equality

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.