Quotes About Equality

Like I'm a person and you're a person, which gives you the right to kill me.

We must be equal to the largeness of things.

We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, not even that we're all the same.

Poco tempo fa sono andato a pranzo con un amico. Si è messo a piangere. Voleva costruirsi una barca e salpare per la Tasmania. Io gli ho riso in faccia. Una settimana dopo gli è venuta un'emorragia cerebrale. Non siamo capaci di imparare niente dagli stereotipi che ci circondano, neppure che siamo tutti uguali.

I'm not looking to wear the white man out with my ability to suffer.

I want to do whatever's best for you." "But you please me by letting me please you," she said. "As the male partner I think it's my responsibility to please." "I'm not sure whether that's a sensitive caring statement or a sexist remark." "Is it wrong for the man to be considerate toward his partner?

We are the same, you and I. We are images of light.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

Quisiéramos que las finanzas dejaran de ser una máquina de hacer dinero típica de la era industrial y se convirtieran en una plataforma de prosperidad.

It's funny. My own mother was a housewife all her life. And yet it's turned out that I've hired a lot of women for top jobs, and they've been among my best people. Often, in fact, they are far more effective than the men around them.

WHENEVER SOMEBODY STARTS KEEPING SCORE IN a relationship the relationship begins to die.

Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants.

Name only one problem and make it the one the most people feel.

La verdad es que no estamos únicamente interesados en nuestra propia supervivencia; también nos interesa la supervivencia de los demás, sobre todo de quienes no han tenido las mismas oportunidades que nosotros.

I get this feeling sometimes that after the world ends, when God destroys all our buildings and our flags, we will wish we had seen everybody as equal, that we had eaten dinner with prostitutes, held them in our arms, opened up spare rooms for them, and loved them and learned from them.

Aren't there male protagonists who race into danger? And I bet you'd call them brave for doing exactly the same thing that a woman gets labeled 'Too Stupid To Live'.

Managing diversity means treating everyone, not equally, but equitably.

A love that dared not speak its name'? In recent years, Brunetti had come to wish that some sorts of love would decide to speak their names a bit less loudly. Did people not realize how tiresome so much of this conversation was to anyone who thought the sexual behaviour of other people was not a matter to discuss or judge?

And today, to the best of his knowledge, no one spoke against it, either, but today the silence was based on the belief that slavery had ceased to exist.

I'm worried about any group that assumes its own superiority, in any way, to other people.

In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true.

What you want is to live and be happy in the world is a woman (or man) who has her (his) own life and lets you have yours

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse.

Though he didn't treat them as equals - he didn't treat anyone as an equal, actually - neither did he resort to the condescending friendliness of the wealthy.