Quotes About Equality

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves

school shootings, gang warfare, domestic violence, and racism and sexism. How can you possibly be hopeful for the

I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.

First—we must alleviate poverty.

How addressing human injustices like poverty and gender oppression makes us better able to create hope for people and the environment. Our

Put it like this: show me a man who knows how to treat a woman like dirt, and I will faint with delight at his feet and allow him to treat me like the doormat he so clearly wants me to be.

Love is love, Nell, in whatever form or shape it comes and those of us who have found it must not let anything get in the way.

I don't think it matters who you love, just as long as you love. Who cares whether it's a man or a woman? Why does that have anything more to do with the person inside than the color of someone's skin? Personally, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that I seem to be one hundred percent heterosexual.

Everyone knew that women had not the capacity for abstract thought; in this, as in so much, men dictated and women followed.

Solidarity is the most important thing. The bosses and the bankers have it. We have to have it, too.

no matter how hard she tried to love them equally and for themselves, as Jesus loved all the little children, was now not the favorite. She thought of a phrase from the Bible—where, she did not know—"In all that has happened to

Come, Ye Women: Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For if ye be but thirteen years, Ye've not been women long. And if ye be threescore and ten, No longer women be, Or so say all the merry men Who count so cruel-ly. But women we be from our birth, And will be till we die. Our counte is made so differently To give the men that lie. Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For we be women all through life, Where life and love are long.

Come, Ye Women Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For if ye be but thirteen years, Ye've not been women long. And if ye be threescore and ten, No longer women be, Or so say all the merry men Who count so cruel-ly. But women we be from our birth, And will be till we die. Our counte is made so differently To give the men that lie. Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For we be women all through life, Where life and love are long. THE

A strong leader is considered a wrong leader when that leader is female.

If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.

I always wanted to eat with a Negro," Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney-assed old white woman," Lula said. "So I guess this works out good.

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.

It's the twenty-first century. I told Tank. Women drive. Only in my bed, Tank said. Never in my car.

His can of pepper spray was bigger than my can of pepper spray.

Hey," I said, "dogs are people, too.

This here's the twenty-first century. Just 'cause we're women don't mean we can't be sick as men.

I am just a simple monk. The sun shines on the just and unjust alike. If the sun does not judge, then who am I to do so?

Are you a feminist?" "You bet your ass," Lula said. "Unless I need something done that's man's work.

My father is an equal opportunity bigot. He wouldn't deprive a man of his rights. And he's not a hate-filled man. He simply knows in his heart that Italians are superior, that stereotypes were created by God, and if a person is worth anything at all he drives a Buick.