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Quotes About Equality

Work is not peripheral to women's sense of Mastery, it is central. Women do not fully develop their capacities if they function primarily in the sphere of feelings and emotion; the idea that a man is what he does and a woman is what she feels is archaic. If work per se is important to a woman's well-being, so too is the quality of her work life.
~ GRACE BARUCH
The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.
~ GRACE BARUCH
I was a Chinese American, an ethnic minority so small as to be almost invisible. He was an African American who was very conscious that the blood and sweat of his ancestors had made possible the rapid economic development of this country and who had already embarked on the struggle to ensure that his people would be among those deciding its economic and political future.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
Las mujeres han comprado libros escritos por hombres desde siempre, y se dieron cuenta de que no eran acerca de ellas. Pero continuaron haciéndolo con gran interés porque era como leer acerca de un país extranjero. Los hombres nunca han devuelto la cortesía".
~ Grace Paley
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
~ Grace Paley
autism makes us special in are own way I can create art just like you. I can become homecoming queen just like you. I graduated hign school just like you. so if I can do things just like you why do you treat me different.
~ Grace Vokoun
There is no They, Only Us.
~ Graffito
Bad spellers of the world, untie!
~ Grafitto
Equal in law is not equal in nature.
~ Greg Bear
Go on. I'm waiting for you to get to the part where you say you're no more proud of being gay than you are of having brown eyes, or black hair, or a birthmark behind your left knee." I protested, "That's true. Why should I be 'proud' of something I was born with? I'm not proud, or ashamed. I just accept it. And I don't have to join a parade to prove that.
~ Greg Egan
In examining the postwar backlash against New Deal internationalism, the opposition between race and class—that is, the question of whether backlashers were motivated by racial hatred or by desire to defend the economic hierarchy—doesn't hold up. Those who feared internationalism as a stalking horse for greater equality made little distinction between the threat of desegregation and the threat of social rights.
~ Greg Grandin
Many historians still consider Jackson's two terms (1829–1837) the fulfillment of the promise of the American Revolution's anti-aristocratic aspirations, a moment of boisterous egalitarianism in which restless white workers armed with the vote became a political force.21 "A
~ Greg Grandin
My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.
~ Greg Iles
Whites have gone from being about 90% of the US population in 1965 to about 60% today, and in many locations and age groups we are already a minority. Whites are projected to slip below 50% of the population around 2042. In a democracy, that inevitably means political disempowerment. (..) If white Americans want to see what life is like as a despised minority in a majority non-white society, they need only look at South Africa today, which was also touted as a rainbow nation.
~ Greg Johnson
Once you educate the boys,they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned.
~ Greg Mortenson
When women take charge, things start to get out of control really fast.
~ Greg Mortenson
You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change.
~ Greg Mortenson
If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.
~ Greg Mortenson
We proved these people were wrongly removed. this was a Jim Crow operation. Except instead of white sheets they used spreadsheets.
~ Greg Palast
Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.
~ Greg Proops
Bush looked straight into the camera and said 'We must preserve the sanctity of marriage!' You know, straight people are doing such a fucking great job.
~ Greg Proops
Understand telling a Woman to "smile" is an imposition and a demand you have no right to make.
~ Greg Proops
In their armor they were all the same, and that was the point, he understood. But he took pleasure in the moments when he could see their variety and diversity—those moments when he could glimpse the people beneath the armor and see them as more than just faceless, nameless soldiers identified by letters and numbers and nothing more.
~ Greg Rucka
Leia was looking up at Poe, smiling ever so slightly. Flyboys. You're all the same. Some of us are flygirls, Poe said.
~ Greg Rucka