Quotes About Equality

I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.

I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

Those of us focused on issues related to social justice and equality are grateful for the significant steps President Obama has made to advance women's equality and status all over the world.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.