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Quotes About Equality

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
~ Clarence Darrow
I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
~ Courtney Love
Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
~ Dale Carnegie
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
~ Dean Frazer
An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.
~ Don Herold
Are you woman enough to be my man?
~ Eddie Vedder
I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.
~ Emily Yoffe
America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
~ Eric Hoffer
We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.
~ Erich Fromm
Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.
~ Eugenia Price
A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.
~ Evan Esar
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
~ Frederick Douglass
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.
~ Gayle King
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
~ Germaine Greer
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
~ Gloria Steinem
More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.
~ Gloria Steinem
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
~ Gloria Steinem
What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
~ Grace Paley