Quotes About Equality

Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.

Freedom isn?t selective; it is either complete, unfettered, and now . . . or it is not freedom.

Will there ever be a time when it is not a curse to be born a woman? When we can do no more, than stand by and be extremely brave and watch them die?

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Women have usually been better at this than men, haven't they? Pursuing these subtleties?" "Women have no choice but to be this way if we want any kind of influence, or simply a little control of our own lives.

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

Why should people with particular skills – always accepting they are skills – live a vastly better economic life than others who have different skills?

Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.

Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed, Nary a curse cursed he, But moved in his House. With his dark little wife, And his dark little children three.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

At a bus station: TOILETS ONLY FOR DISABLED PREGNANT CHILDREN

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

No es por filantropía que hay que tener un país menos desigual, más homogéneo. Es para darle viabilidad al país mismo:

Ninguna de esas cosas se conseguirá sin la gran asignatura pendiente de la modernización mexicana que es el gobierno de la ley, la aplicación de la ley, la igualdad ante la ley, la vigencia de la ley.

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and language slipping away – that's how daring a feat, how great a transgression it is for a woman to speak – even just open her mouth – in public.

I write woman: woman must write woman. And man, man. So only an oblique consideration will be found here of man; it's up to him to say where his masculinity and femininity are at: this will concern us once men have opened their eyes and seen themselves clearly.

Beauty will no longer be forbidden.

Men have committed the greatest crime against women (...) They have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies.

Women should break out of the snare of silence. They shouldn't be conned into accepting a domain which is the margin or the harem.

This is why I go so willingly into the house of dreams: I admire them for their aptitude for non-discrimination. It is in their house that the equal light from before the guilty feeling reigns. Neither pride, nor shame.