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Quotes About Equality

Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
~ James Hillman
No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
~ John Cassian
I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.
~ Katie Pavlich
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
~ Charles James Fox
Be kind, man - don't be mankind.
~ Don Van Vliet
A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.
~ Erich Fromm
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.
~ Faye Wattleton
Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
~ Frank Pittman
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
~ Frederick Douglass
This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.
~ George Carlin
[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
~ Malcolm X
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
~ Marilyn French
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?
~ Mary Astell
The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
~ Plautus
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
~ Richard Baxter
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
~ Margaret Mead
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche