Quotes About Equality

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.