Quotes About Equality

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

There are no woman composers, never have been and possibly never will be.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

Guys are OK... shake their hand... Women are special. You can hug 'em.

Men are good but women are magic.

Men are superior to women. For one thing, men can urinate from a speeding car.

Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.