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Quotes About Equality

The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.
~ Emma Goldman
If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!
~ Emma Goldman
If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.
~ Eric Braeden
Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
~ Erica Jong
In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.
~ Felicity Jones
Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"
~ Felicity Jones
I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.
~ Felicity Jones
Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.
~ Felipe Esparza
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
~ Frances O'Grady
A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.
~ Frances O'Grady
Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.
~ Frederick Lenz
I don't work with men who are antagonistic to the liberation of women. I do work with quite a number of men who are supportive of the enlightenment of women. Such men are rare.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
~ Gabriela Sabatini
As long as we decline to allow sick uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
~ Gail Collins
Finding ways to organize work in which people are not locked into unequal power relationships is very important. Having said that, it's not easily done, and it's complicated.
~ Gar Alperovitz
An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid
~ Gary Miller
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work.
~ George Harrison
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
~ George P. Shultz
Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.
~ George R. R. Martin
The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.
~ George Saunders
Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.
~ Germaine Greer
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.
~ Giovanna Cau