Quotes About Equality

Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

My lesbianism is not linked to sexual preference. For me, it is part of my world view, part of my passion for women and central in my objection to male domination.

Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

God always pairs off like with like.

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.

The most national of all sentiments in France is vanity. The wounded vanity of the many induced a thirst for Equality; though, as the most ardent innovator will some day discover, Equality is an impossibility.

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

I gravitate toward women.

That's the kind of luxury that men have. They can be awful and beloved. Women don't get that kind of leeway.

You should never despise people because they haven't had your opportunities.

Why do women have to suffer this way? Why don't we have the freedom men have?

Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score?

If she was handing over a slice of her heart, she wanted the exact same size given back in return. Actually, she really preferred a bigger piece, thank you very much.