Quotes About Equality

The great object of the author in writing has been to bring this subject of slavery, as a moral and religious question, before the minds of all those who profess to be followers of Christ, in this country.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Women are the real architects of society.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

The right to be different, whether by choice or necessity, is our greatest right as human beings. And dealing with differences is the greatest of all human challenges. People react anxiously and fearfully to differences. We learn to hate, glorify, deny, exaggerate, or eradicate a difference.

Our goal will be to have relationships with both men and women that do not operate at the expense of the self, and to have a self that does not operate at the expense of the other.

The right to be different, whether by choice or necessity, is our greatest right as human beings. And dealing with differences is the greatest of all human challenges. People react anxiously and fearfully to differences. We learn to hate, glorify, deny, exaggerate, or eradicate a difference. Or we try to get comfortable by shaming the different person or group.

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Finding your voice in an unequal power arrangement—especially when the more powerful person is shaming you—takes a great amount of courage.

When women equate requesting a behavioral change with trying to teach the proverbial pig to sing, we don't strengthen our voice. Instead, we get sucked in by the latest research findings about how male and female brains are different, so men can't really be expected to pick up their socks. It feels easier to give up and adapt to unfair circumstances, despite the enormous long-term toll of making such accommodations.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

There is no inherent reason or necessity that all women should voluntarily choose to devote their lives to one animal function and its consequences. Numbers of women are wives and mothers only because there is no other career open to them,---no other occupation for their feelings or activities.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."

You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way.

If adjustment is necessary, it should be made primarily with regard to the position the homosexual occupies in present-day society, and society should more often be treated than the homosexual.

We're not very different from one another, not different at all in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It's a lie about us being different.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Diversity yields strength. This is America's history and example. Indeed, diversity is our very creed, as is evident from the wording of our Constitution and its Amendments, from our persistent acknowledgment of the equality of persons, and from our accepting each other and profiting from our differences. To oppose it is to ignore and violate the American testament and its precious dream.

It is time that we recognize intolerance for its miserable worth and, at last, work together to eliminate it. This will be a difficult task, but it is a difficult task worth doing.

No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.