Quotes About Equality

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

The minority impulses are the Negroes of the personality. They have not enjoyed freedom since the personality was founded: they have become the invisible men. We refuse to recognize that a minority impulse is a potential full man, and until he is granted the same opportunity for development as the major conventional selves, the personality in which he lives will be divided, subject to tensions which lead to periodic explosions and riots.

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Encourage the women in your life—your friends, sisters, mothers, daughters—to insist on dignity and respect, to have faith in themselves, to be proud. Expect boys and men to be respectful, kind, and responsible, and don't settle for less.

The underlying attitude comes bursting out of his words: He believes his wife is keeping something of his away from him when she doesn't want intimate contact. He sees sexual rights to a woman as akin to mineral rights to land—and he owns them.

Our society should not buy into the abusive man's claim that holding him accountable is an act of cruelty.

You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.

Free labor from her; leisure and freedom for him

Abused women aren't "codependent." It is abusers, not their partners, who create abusive relationships.

don't make him do the things he does. When men blame women for their own behavior, that's one of the benchmarks of abuse.

This style of abuser loses interest in sex if his partner starts to assert herself as an equal human being deserving of respect, or he begins to coerce or assault her sexually. In short, he wants sex on his terms or not at all.

Genuine love means respecting the humanity of the other person, wanting what is best for him or her, and supporting the other person's self-esteem and independence. This kind of love is incompatible with abuse and coercion.

I can't solve his problems, and it's not my fault that he thinks I should.

YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER.

A man's partner is not his child, and the freedoms he "grants" her are not credits to be spent like chips when the urge to control her arises.

How do we change societal values so that women's rights to live free of insults, invasion, disempowerment, and intimidation is respected? One way is simply to declare out loud to people in your life that women have these rights unconditionally.

Abusive and controlling men tend to have an endless collection of strategies to avoid having to look at their behavior and change it. They are highly attached to an unequal, privileged position in their relationships with women, and as a result are simply not willing to operate respectfully, since that would mean operating as equals.

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

Oh, Mom, what's 'normal' mean, anyway? 'Normal' is whatever we make it.

Ascolta, soltanto quando governeremo una città, aboliremo l'uso del denaro, il possesso privato dei beni e le differenze di censo, allora la luce della nostra fede sarà così potente da illuminare tutte le genti.

It is impossible to establish a real dialogue with someone who does not consider you an equal (Fifty Shades of Feminism)

feminazis (un término acuñado por lo más recalcitrante del machismo violento para referirse a las feministas que supuestamente pretenden aniquilar a los hombres como género, al cuestionar su ejercicio de poder abusivo y desigual).

If I give all I have and you give all you have, isn't that a kind of equality? No, he says.