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Quotes About Equality

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.
~ Tim Wise
Black people, too, are capable of being culturally arrogant.
~ Jemele Hill
Inclusivity is extremely important in any art form.
~ Sobhita Dhulipala
I was fortunate enough to go to an art school where we had a lot of different ethnicities represented.
~ Erika Jayne
I really believe that women run the art world.
~ Marilyn Minter
Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.
~ Roisin Murphy
All the news articles focus on how I look. They certainly don't do that to men.
~ Scarlett Moffatt
I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.
~ Lawrence Wright
I'm not ashamed to be gay.
~ DeRay Mckesson
I wouldn't say I'm better than Ashley Cole but I would like to think I am up there with him.
~ Wayne Bridge
Les différences entre un soldat, un ouvrier, un administrateur, un avocat, un oisif, un savant, un homme d'état, un commerçant, un marin, un poète, un pauvre, un prêtre, sont, quoique plus difficiles à saisir, aussi considérables que celles qui distinguent le loup, le lion, l'âne, le corbeau, le requin, le veau marin, la brebis, etc. Il a donc existé, il existera donc de tout temps des Espèces Sociales comme il y a des Espèces Zoologiques
~ Honore de Balzac
She put all her pride and self-love into making him superior to herself, and not in ruling him. Hearts without tenderness covet dominion, but a true love treasures abnegation, that virtue of strength.
~ Honore de Balzac
For some time past she had been suspected of being au fond, in spite of appearances, an "original." In the provinces it was not permissible to be original: being original means having ideas that are not understood by others; the provinces demand equality of mind as well as equality of manners and customs.
~ Honore de Balzac
Quand tu auras envie de critiquer quelqu'un, songe que tout le monde n'a pas joui des mêmes avantages que toi.
~ Honore de Balzac
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth is capable of converting it into a fact.
~ Honore de Balzac
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
~ Honore de Balzac
have perhaps observed how feeling can bridge over the distances created by society. If we are inferior to you in intellect, we can be your equals in devoted friendship. By the temperature — allow me the word — of our hearts I felt myself as near my patron as I was far below him in rank. In short, the soul has its clairvoyance; it has presentiments of suffering, grief, joy, antagonism, or hatred in others.
~ Honore de Balzac
Les lois sont des toiles d'araignée à travers lesquelles passent les grosses mouches et où restent les petites
~ Honore de Balzac
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
~ Unknown
all this time, I been asking myself, why couldn't them crackers just leave us colored folks alone? Let
~ Unknown
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil The Debate In the City, my mother had been a nuisance.
~ Unknown
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
~ Honore de Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.
~ Hope Davis