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Quotes About Equality

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The term 'working mother' is redundant.
~ Erma Bombeck
God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.
~ Lynn Freed
Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
~ Christopher Heyerdahl
My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.
~ Marilyn Hacker
A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
~ Emma Bonino
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
~ Francis Maude
I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.
~ Lewis Schiff
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.
~ Gloria Steinem
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
~ Joely Richardson
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
~ Johann Lamont
If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
~ Laurence Housman
Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
~ Lin Yutang
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.
~ Mary Frances Berry
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.
~ Mary Frances Berry
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.
~ Michelle Singletary
In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
my mother is a good mathematicianshe was able to divide 3 eggsinto 8 mouths equally every day
~ Ymatruz, The Coffee Cries Foul
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
~ John F. Kennedy
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
~ Jimmy Carter