Quotes About Equality

Son égale ! Mais comment ? Ne suis-je pas sa femme ? Quel autre que lui pourrait me diriger ? N'est-il pas mon maître par la loi ?

Liberation is a constant struggle. And this is a new year.

You know I love Brother Buddha, but until he reincarnates as a black man in America, I think we better go with what we know." Joyce

Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

Music is music, but in a revolution, land and resources are supposed to change hands.

Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions have got to be just as strong with the oppressed as with the oppression mongers. The oppressed must feel inferior and then he will act inferior.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.

I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted. "Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same

And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated.

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

In a strange and ominous way the fate of women everywhere in the world is linked with the trend toward fascism. To delay might mean to be compelled to silence.

All human beings have noses, eyes, arms, legs, hearts, stomachs, and so far as I have been able to

Yes, you paid money for me, she answered, but that does not make me yours. A human creature cannot be bought whole.

want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.

Hay tantos niños que van a nacer con una alita rota Y yo quiero que vuelen compañero Que su revolución les dé un pedazo de cielo rojo Para que puedan volar

Como si no bastara con los comunistas, ahora son los homosexuales exhibiéndose en el campo, haciendo todas sus cochinadas al aire libre. Es el colmo.

We've raised a generation of girls to have a voice, to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, in the workplace. Now it's time to demand that "intimate justice" in their personal lives as well.

The stay-at-home mom is just as vulnerable as the working mom