Quotes About Equality

Yet I still remember how our white suffragist sisters barred us from attending their conventions in 1901 and 1903.

Many of the eastern and southern women here greatly resent the fact that there are to be colored women in the delegations.

Some have even gone so far as to say they will not march if Negro women are allowed to take part.

That's the one thing that came out of the war—women proved how much they were capable of tackling.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

The hafts of the tools were stained black with th sweat of us all, our contributions, black and white alike.

If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. But if a woman gets pregnant, she's treated like a criminal.

I'm sick of your male chauvinism. No wonder Confucius wasn't welcomed during his travels - jabbering on about male superiority all the time!

If we generic gay and lesbian whitefolks set as our movement's goal being assimilated into American culture, getting 'our piece of the pie,' we ignore or deny the reality that gay and lesbian people of color will never be assimilated in the same way within this system because it was constituted to exclude them.

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

I am glad that I am not a man, for if I were I should have to marry a woman.

O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

This generosity of spirit-this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal-is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive. It is a capacity that can be found in most people, but it is not always nurtured and is sometimes, for a period, brutally crushed.

there is aspecial place in hell for women who do not help other womem

There's a special place in hell reserved for women who don't help other women.

in any group, someone has to lead, and it might as well be a woman - provided she has done the work necessary to prepare.