Quotes About Equality

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Why does women's underwear have lace and flowers all over it? You never see men's underwear with a big wrench in the middle of it.

I can't believe we still have the Miss America pageant. This is America! Where we're not supposed to judge people based on how they look; we're supposed to judge people based on how much money they make.

Jews, homosexuals, and Gypsies, the yellow, pink and brown triangles, were the prisoners who suffered most frequently and most severely from the tortures and blows of the SS and the Capos. They were described as the scum of humanity, who had no right to live on German soil and should be exterminated… but the lowest of the low in this "scum" were we, the men with the pink triangle.

whether we gays live in Vienna or anywhere else, we can live as decent a life as we want, but the contempt of our fellow humans, and social discrimination, is the same as it was thirty or fifty years ago. The progress of humanity has passed us by.

What does it say about the world we live in, if an adult man is told how and whom he should love?

Probablemente el supuesto buen gusto preponderante en la sociedad actual prohíbe hablar del exterminio de los presos en los campos de concentración, particularmente cuando se trata de homosexuales.

For the first time in the kingdom's history, all the contenders for the crown that Edward was about to relinquish were female.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Health and education are always issues.

Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.

Rebel violence was targeted against the socially, culturally and sexually different.

the rule of law.

Among the military rebels and all their immediate supporters there was an especially pathological fear and loathing of emancipated women

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

The highest result of education is tolerance

The women's movement has not found a way to reconnect comfortably with the religious impulse that was central to its origin.

Authentic religious expression for them was an experience of the soul and made no distinctions of gender. As Lucretia Mott said, "In Christ, there is neither male nor female." Gradually, I have realized the core of what set them apart for me. It is that they lived, more than most of us, from a place of wholeness. They were authentically themselves without amputations or edits.

Sojourner [Truth]'s voice was the instrument that enabled her to claim her full self. Once she had done this, she was able to use her instrument and life story to help gain freedom for others.

While we know it is possible to work for justice without being religious, we believe that religious faith presupposes a mandate to write, speak, and act for social justice.