Quotes About Equality

Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and that the earth itself belongs to nobody

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

LuaÈ›i femeia cea mai cuminte, cea mai înÈ›eleapt?, cea mai puÈ›in st?pânit? de simÈ›uri; crima cea mai de neiertat pe care un b?rbat, c?ruia chiar dac? îi d? prea puÈ›in? atenÈ›ie, poate s? o s?vârÈ™easc? fa?? de ea, este de a putea s? o aib? È™i a nu o face.

L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers.

L'uomo è nato libero e ovunque si trova in catene

We can't have freedom unless we have freedom. And that means freedom to speak our minds.

But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone

nor can a society last if a few people exercise their individuality at the expense of the community.

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]

I hope that gay gentleman will be safe.

La conscience de l'identité entre tous les hommes est au fondement du droit à l'alimentation. Personne ne saurait tolérer la destruction de son semblable par la faim sans mettre en danger sa propre humanité, son identité. (p. 122)

Les lois du marché font que seule la demande solvable est comblée. Elles imposent l'ignorance délibérée du fait que l'alimentation est un droit humain, un droit pour tous. (p. 311)

Los derechos humanos deberían ser la base de la comunidad internacional. Fijan las normas mínimas en virtud de las cuales hombres procedentes de horizontes diferentes pueden encontrarse, reconocerse y hablarse.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

There are voices and they must be heard.

Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.' 'And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.

Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them see that for a woman, a working-class woman, to want to be a writer, to want to be a good writer, and to believe that you were good enough, that was not arrogance; that was politics. (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? p. 103)

When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.

She had been a career woman all her life. She noted there was no such thing as a career man. She had made her choices. No regrets. But there were losses. There always were.

A woman who slaves for a man does not have a marriage; she has a master.

Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place...not particularly interesting, but quite harmless.