Quotes About Equality

Sometimes even the most highborn must swab out their own toilets.

How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness. Page 204

Why do people tell girls all this? You ask them to achieve things, but when they do, you can't handle it.

Why do we need our men to praise and validate us in order for us to feel accomplished?

The upper-caste, upper-class Hindus have to let go of their bigotry and prejudice. The oppressed have to let go of their justified but expensive urge for revenge and retribution. All over the world, the oppressed have only risen through self-empowerment—look at the Jews and the Parsis.

They say that the test of a person's character is how he or she treats those less powerful than him or her.

If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And

How can god give girls so much power? How can they turn productive, busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness.

The test of a nation's character is how its majority citizens treat minorities.

The system we have, in which there are a few kings and lots of common people, cannot generate wealth. It

A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is finished, no matter how brave its warriors or how strong their weapons.

When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall all be alike, brothers of one father and one mother with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the Earth.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Accept all kinds of people, even those that use mild sauce.

Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

But, sir, we are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it... Sir, if you would levy only taxes which in the opinion of everybody, or even of a majority, are not unequal and unjust, you would have such a tax law as I have never yet seen.