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Quotes About Equality

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.
~ Maxine Waters
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
~ Ella Baker
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
~ Chief Joseph
As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.
~ Julian of Norwich
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
~ Lucy Stone
The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia's communist workers.
~ Alexandra Kollontai
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
~ Ziauddin Yousafzai
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.
~ Kamala Harris
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
~ Kamala Harris
I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, 'I have a mother.
~ Sarada Devi
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
~ Little Richard
No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...
~ Cecile Richards
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
~ Chanda Kochhar
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
~ Don King
And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
~ Sojourner Truth
Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.
~ Cicely Tyson
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
~ Brigham Young
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.
~ Mary Livermore
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.
~ Annie Ilonzeh
As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
~ Shirley Chisholm