Quotes About Equality

I often quoted the lines of Sarah Grimke, one of two wonderful sisters from South Carolina, and they said to legislators in the mid-1900s, I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask of my brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks.

History is herstory too.

How good does a female athlete have to be before we just call her an athlete?

Sexism is a social disease.

No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think about it. It's a culture.

We can't have war between black men and black women, because no one can be free if one half of the mind of the people is tied up in conflict. It's going to have to be both of us or none of us.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The sun shines alike, the rain falls alike, the wings of Samothracian Nike spread alike over the just and the unjust, the seeing and the not-seeing and the almost seeing and the just not seeing.

Among the collection of crimes of American "civilization," lynching has a special place of honor.

I only have one desire, the ultimate desire is to make our country completely independent, our people completely free, all compatriots have food to eat, clothes to wear, everyone has the opportunity to study.

How many times, have I had to seat women whom I received at audiences next to me, rather than facing me, in order to avoid general embarrassment? Nothing should compel us to suffer such trials. It puts the nerves of men and the modesty of women to a severe test.

While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

I really hate the implication that just because I'm small and female, I can't take care of myself.

When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

In recommending free trade to developing countries, the Bad Samaritans point out that all the rich countries have free(ish) trade. This is, however, like people advising the parents of a six-year old boy to make him get a job, arguing that successful adults don't live off their parents and, therefore, that being independent must be the reason for their successes. They do not realize that those adults are independent because they are successful, and not the other way around.

The most important assumption underlying HOS is that all countries have equal productive capabilities – that is, they can use any technology they want.3

Unless South Africa is

Unlike what neo-liberals say, market and democracy clash at a fundamental level. Democracy runs on the principle of 'one man (one person), one vote'. The market runs on the principle 'one dollar, one vote'.

It doesn't matter from which ethnicity you belong to; but always be like bounded body and never let anyone suffer in pain. Lets throw hate away. Lets all think for just five minutes; what will happen if we are disunited and United?!