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Quotes About Equality

The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.
~ Ousmane Sembene
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
~ Ovid
Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
~ Ovid
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
~ Ovid
Male beauty's better for neglect.
~ Ovid
All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.
~ Owen Wister
You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.
~ P.C. Cast
Never underestimate a woman simply because she is a woman. The Goddess of Life is female, and She is the only thing in this world mightier than death.
~ P.C. Cast
You won't mind my calling you Comrade, will you? I've just become a socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
As an energetic Socialist, I do my best to see the good that is in him, but it's hard. Comrade Bristow's the most striking argument against the equality of man I've ever come across.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I've just become a Socialist. It's a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the equal distribution of property, and start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It is a curious law of Nature that the most undeserving brothers always have the best sisters.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
~ Pablo Neruda
Quiero vivir en un mundo en el que los seres sean solamente humanos, sin darse en la cabeza con una regla, con una palabr, con una etiqueta... Quiero que la gran mayoría, la única mayoría, todos, puedan hablar, leer, escuchar, florecer. No entendí nunca la lucha sino para que ésta termine.
~ Pablo Neruda
I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.
~ Pablo Picasso
Today, I see and create a radically new vision, one where everyone wins, everyone gets a seat at the table.
~ Pam Grout
I am who I am, which is a combination of all I know, and I've always believed that striving to be a sensual person, or being sexy, should not conflict with intelligence. Women have fought hard so that we do not need to limit ourselves.
~ Pamela Anderson
Women are really not respected to this day. That's why we need humor, style, stamina, art.
~ Pamela Anderson
Man should strive to see the God in woman, and to help her realize her spiritual nature. He should make her feel that she is with him not merely to satisfy his sensual appetites, but as a companion whom he respects and regards as an expression of the Divine. And woman should look upon man in the same way.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Dios no hace ciertamente distinción alguna entre lo importante y lo no importante, no vaya a ser que, por falta de un alfiler, ¡El cosmos se derrumbre!
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but one has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the other absorbs all the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I call myself a nationalist, but my nationalism is as broad as the universe. It includes in its sweep all the nations of the earth. 323 My nationalism includes the well-being of the whole world. I do not want my India to rise on the ashes of other nations. I do not want India to exploit a single human being. I want India to be strong in order that she can infect the other nations also with her strength.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I call myself a nationalist, but my nationalism is as broad as the universe. It includes in its sweep all the nations of the earth. My nationalism includes the well-being of the whole world. I do not want my India to rise on the ashes of other nations. I do not want India to exploit a single human being. I want India to be strong in order that she can infect the other nations also with her strength. Not so with a single nation in Europe today; they do not give strength to the others.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sad but true that nothing puts a woman in her place more effectively than a chivalrous gesture performed in a certain manner.
~ Pat Barker