Quotes About Equality

Sarah Pomeroy, in her careful study, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Si las mujeres feministas insistieron en el derecho de instruirse, en el derecho de ejercer la razón, en no encontrarse en situación de minus valia ante el monopolio masculino de la cultura, era porque veían con diáfana claridad que no hay libertad sin conocimiento.

No hay rebelión de la mujer sin crisis de poder.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

Do you think sixty-five-year-old women don't go to war? We are always at war. Our husbands spent their lives in comfortable chairs. Have we ever sat in comfortable chairs? No. Yoga balls, haunches tensed.

Privilege is the way men prime power, the world over.

My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.

I've been invisible for a long time, and he's been walking the world with all the privilege of being a man.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

The feminist project is basically an anarchist movement which does not want to replace one (male) power elite by another (female) power elite, but which wants to build up a non-hierarchical, non-centralised society where no elite lives of exploitation and dominance over others.

Feminists are those who dare to break the conspiracy of silence about the oppressive, unequal man-woman relationship and who want to change it.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

I succeeded in teaching a number of the idiots from the asylums both to read and to write so well that I was able to present them at a public school for an examination together with normal children. And they passed the examination successfully.

But the love of man for man is a far more tender thing, and so simple that it is universal. To love in this way is not the privilege of any especially prepared intellectual class, but lies within the reach of all men.

While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children of the common schools on so low a plane that they could be equalled in tests of intelligence by my unfortunate pupils!

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

the foundation of justice was impartiality.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Writing, and creativity in general, had been the domain of "great men" and would stay there until women stormed the arena, using words as their weapons.4

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

El que és segur és que hem guanyat la batalla contra la norma. Ja era hora. ("Ens fem imatges dels fets", Serra d'Or, 1981)

He, Sam McGowan, having been raised in a house where women were expected to achieve, had had any potential sexist inclination beaten out of him by his oldest sister long ago.