Quotes About Equality

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike.

I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

If you believe that men and women have equal rights, if someone asks if you're feminist, you have to say yes because that is how words work.

Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.

Women should work with local and state leaders and be vocal about ensuring there's more diversity and more women involved.

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.