Quotes About Equality

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?