Quotes About Equality

Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

You don't look at another person's plate to see if they have more than you. You look to see if they have enough.

You say you don't see color…but that's all you see. You're so hyperaware of it, and of trying to look like you aren't prejudiced, you can't even understand that when you say race doesn't matter all I hear is you dismissing what I've felt, what I've lived, what it's like to be put down because of the color of my skin.

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.

Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn't quite so accessible to all.

Being gay or straight," says Elizabeth, "is about who you want to go to bed with. Being trans—or cis—is about who you want to go to bed as.

Babies are such blank slates. They don't come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don't like. They don't come into this world with anything, really, except a need for comfort. And they will take it from anyone, without judging the giver. I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

being a woman has meant being someone who gets talked over in conversations or ignored; someone who gets judged as a body instead of as a sentient soul; someone who, no matter who you are or what you are doing, always has to be on guard, lest someone else decide that you're going to be his victim.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,wow, check out the brain on that babe.

Just because ANYONE CAN, DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE CAN.

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman

So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying tomake them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God putthem here to do: Everything.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar.