Quotes About Equality

violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.' — Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's different for girls.

It didn't matter if they were black or white or Mexican, they all grew up with a sense of entitlement that was sickening. Everybody owed them something. They assumed they could talk to the law the same way they talked to their friends because the world had gone soft and they knew it. Everything was tolerated because nobody was at fault.

I don't think I'm special. I want you to know that," Odile says sharply. "I don't think I'm better than everybody else.

Yeah, things are better for blacks and women and gays, but it was the blacks and women and gays that did it, not fuck-ups like this bunch. Whites and straights came along to give help, all right, after the blacks said 'enough' and got their heads busted, and it's the same for the gays and the women. The whites and straights, they control things, and they could have changed it anytime.

we are all equally poor and helpless in the eyes of God, and all have equal need that He should not forget us.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

A government of laws, and not of men

The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.

If it wasn't for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.

Most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.

Why do they hate us so much anyway?' I asked after a lengthy pause. 'If they're not queer themselves, then what does it matter to them if someone else is?' 'I remember a friend of mine once telling me that we hate what we fear in ourselves,' she said with a shrug.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see.

Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see, said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. That's true, she said. But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power, they fear a change of the world order.

wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.

it's something that every girl realizes at some point in her life, usually when she's around fifteen or sixteen. Maybe it's even younger now. That she has more power than every man in the room combined, because men are weak and governed by their desires and their desperate need for women but women are strong. I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We're elements in a process that began in the dim past and will develop through who knows what kind of future.

Men, embryonically speaking, are imperfect women, as you know.

We've exalted our womenfolk into little tin gods, and at the same time left them out of the real business of life.

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.