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Quotes About Equality

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.
~ John Edgar Wideman
The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.
~ John Maus
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
~ John Milton
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.
~ John Milton
The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.
~ John Norman
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
~ John Ruskin
Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.
~ John Ruskin
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
~ Joseph Addison
He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
~ Joseph Hall
Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
~ Josh Billings
To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.
~ Judd Apatow
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
~ Karel Capek
I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.
~ Karen Gillan
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
~ Katori Hall
While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.
~ Kola Boof
I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.
~ Lady G
But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
~ Larry Bird
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
~ Laurence J. Peter
It's not that I don't like penises. I just don't like them on men.
~ Lea DeLaria
A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.
~ Lillian Vernon
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
~ Lilly Ledbetter
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
~ Liz Phair