Quotes About Equality

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

When a teenaged girl asked Trump during a campaign rally whether he believed women deserved equal pay, he irritatingly responded, "Only if you do as good of a job." Well, the question is, how can a woman do as good a job if society is designed in such a way that women don't have equal individual rights?

As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.

Alexandros's baiting and my experience at the Jewish temple opened my eyes to the fact that most men thought women inferior. After all, I had grown up under the shadow of the most powerful woman in the world. I saw great men prostrate themselves at her feet. I worshipped at the altar of the greatest Goddess of All, Isis.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Queers make the best monks.

Women, intelligent or not, were rarely reasonable.

Hoy corresponde a los poderes públicos de los estados de derecho esforzarse en poner las condiciones que hagan posible para todo individuo conquistar la felicidad.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

Beauty is in all shapes and sizes

There is no shame in black beauty.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.