Quotes About Equality

We have no need of a feminized apparatus to bureaucratically manage women's lives or to issue sporadic statements about women's lives by smooth-talking functionaries. What we need are women who will fight because they know that without a fight the old order will not be destroyed and no new order will be built. We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitively destroy and replace it.

By changing the social order that oppresses women, the revolution creates the conditions for their genuine emancipation.

The condition of women is therefore at the heart of the question of humanity itself, here, there, and everywhere.

Nous ne parlons pas de l'émancipation des femmes par charité, mais parce que pour nous c'est une base nécessaire pour le triomphe de notre révolution".

The woman leads a twofold existence indeed, the depth of her social ostracism being equally only by her stoic endurance. To live in harmony with the society of man, to conform with men's demands, she resigns herself to a self-effacement that is demeaning, she sacrifices herself.

N]othing whole, nothing definitive or lasting can be accomplished in our country as long as a crucial part of ourselves is kept in this condition of subjugation—a condition imposed over the course of centuries by various systems of exploitation.

Conceiving a development project without women's participation is like using only four fingers when we have ten.

In every male languishes the soul of a feudal lord, a male chauvinist, which must be destroyed.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

One cannot believe that God has divided humanity into the elect, whom he loves, and the non-elect, whom he despises and believe that God is nonetheless worthy of worship and, at the same time, love one's neighbor as oneself.

The Bible says Eve was born of Adam's rib, but he was born of the earth, so there was woman before there ever was man. She is not merely a mate, a life's companion, a helpmeet; she is the moving force, the power.

She seemed less my wife and more a woman in her own right, more self-reliant and independent. I felt I was looking at her in the round, so to speak, as one views a statue, from all sides, not merely a bas-relief with the figure partially imprisoned in the stone.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Most rájött arra a titokra, melybÅ'l sohase gyógyulunk meg, hogy még a legtökéletesebb szerelemben is egyikünk kevésbé mélyen szeret, mint másikunk. Mindketten egyformán jók lehetünk, egyformán tehetségesek és szépek is; de sohase lehet két ember, aki egyformán szereti egymást.

unloved, educated or illiterate, wanted or unwanted by her parents, whether or not she suffered hurt and betrayal, or whether she still managed to retain her humanity and nobility? In the end, Bhima thinks, it doesn't matter. It is all ash and dust. This is what it means to be human, she thinks: grains of dust arranged in human form—some dark, some light, some tall, some short, some male, some female. And in the end, the same gust of wind breaks them all down.

Women create, Bhima thinks, men destroy. The way of the world.

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [...] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect.

You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.