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Quotes About Equality

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
~ Alice Paul
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
~ John Steinbeck
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.
~ Walter Reuther
There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
~ William Osler
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
~ Dr. Dre
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
~ Ann Richards
Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem
~ Boonaa Mohammed
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.
~ Dolores Huerta
We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.
~ Leymah Gbowee
Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.
~ Coretta Scott King
If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
~ Harriet Quimby
Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
~ Mary Church Terrell
There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
~ Bill Mollison
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
~ Alice Paul
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
~ Jackson Katz
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
~ Susan B. Anthony