Quotes About Equality

Profit at the expense of no one.

If there was any justice in the war at all, it was a rich man's fight just as much as it was a poor man's; and when the time came for deciding who should and who should not take a turn on the battlefield, the chances ought to have been equal, between the rich men and the poor men, of drawing prizes or blanks in the lottery.

What's wrong with me? I'll tell you what's wrong, Daisy. This Waheed guy is brown and I'm white—I'm a white guy nearing middle age and times have changed and everyone needs the optics of diversity.

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

It's an impossible situation. We need to stick together in the face of this rampant affirmative action that lauds skin color over experience.

Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men's trousers, you needn't assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

There is no animal more invincible than a woman

A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do.

he said...Do you understand?" "Yes," she said, heart pounding. "Thank you for explaining it in simple terms, in case my girl brain was too small to grasp the implications.

Women don't have a sense of humor," Bertie said. "They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce that the Almighty is a female.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Los Angeles has more kids in foster care than any other city and it is not unusual to read a news story about a child who was injured or who needlessly died in foster care—after being unjustly taken from economically disadvantaged parents who are not unfit.

His back to the room, Jackson said, "I need a Chris." Because Chris was gay, Dare choked and Trace laughed.

I regularly made an effort to remember one of the most important lessons from my training: There's no hierarchy of pain. Suffering shouldn't be ranked, because pain is not a contest. Spouses often forget this, upping the ante on their suffering—I had the kids all day. My job is more demanding than yours. I'm lonelier than you are. Whose pain wins—or loses?

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

The most ignorant young man, who knows nothing of the needs of women, thinks himself a competent legislator, because he is a man," Pankhurst told the crowd, eyeing the Harvard men. "This aristocratic attitude is a mistake.

The fight for women's rights hasn't come in waves. Wonder Woman was a product of the suffragist, feminist, and birth control movements of the 1900s and 1910s and became a source of the women's liberation and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The fight for women's rights has been a river, wending.

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. Feminism is not a prejudice, she said, It is a principle.

Wonder Woman isn't only an Amazonian princess with badass boots. She's the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman suffrage campaigns of the 1910s and ends with the troubled place of feminism fully a century later. Feminism made Wonder Woman. And then Wonder Woman remade feminism....

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists, as one feminist explained.

All feminists are suffragists, but not all suffragists are feminists," as one feminist explained. Feminists rejected the idea of women as reformers whose moral authority came from their differentness from men—women were supposedly, by nature, more tender and loving and chaste and pure—and advocated instead women's full and equal participation in politics, work, and the arts, on the grounds that women were in every way equal to men.