Quotes About Equality

The deaths of those young women changed Canadian society. It brought about much stricter gun legislation (though it could be tougher still) and forced a long, hard, often painful examination of equal rights. Of human rights.

Of course the opposite is also true. No one is as good as the best thing.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.

Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.

I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Thoughts have no sex.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.

If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

I love to you" is more unusual than "I love you," but respects the two more: I love to who you are, to what you do, without reducing you to an object of my love.

I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.