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Quotes About Equality

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
~ Bella Abzug
Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.
~ John Lewis
I can hear the roar of women's silence
~ Thomas Sankara
Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.
~ Nellie L. McClung
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
~ Walt Whitman
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
~ Ann Richards
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
~ Angelina Grimke
Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.
~ Mitra Farahani
The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
The struggle for the vote was an effort to bring men to feel less superior and women to feel less inferior.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.
~ Joe Biden
In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.
~ Malala Yousafzai
No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.
~ Manmohan Singh
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
~ Kate Millett
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
~ Dolores Huerta
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
~ Margaret Sanger
Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.
~ Kellyanne Conway
If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.
~ Sarah Winnemucca
Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.
~ Harriet Martineau