Quotes About Equality

The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.

I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.