Quotes About Equality

It is impossible to Name and Act against oppression if there are no Nameable oppressors.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women.

If God is male, then male is God.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.

I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.

Choice is powerful and can lead to great things if not held in the tight fists of a few.

It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control." "What about brains?" Ethan asks. "What are they worth?" "Brains are pretty much illegal.

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

I know what it feels like to have my choices taken away. I pray no daughter of your kingdom will ever have to fight for her voice to be heard as I have had to do

stopped him, pushing him to his feet again by the tip of my sword. "It shouldn't matter if I am a tavern maid or a princess. When I see you treating others with respect without regard to their station—or anatomy—then your apology will mean something." I

Eu o interrompi, empurrando-o para que ficasse em pé de novo, com a ponta da minha espada. "Não deveria fazer diferença se eu sou uma criada de taverna ou uma princesa. Quando eu o vir tratando os outros com respeito, independentemente da posição que ocupam, ou da sua anatomia, então seu pedido de desculpas significará alguma coisa." Eu me virei para ir embora enquanto ele ainda falava, cansada porque essa era uma batalha que eu teria que lutar repetidas vezes.

Nezahazuj jeden druh síly pro jiný.

You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Justice to the dead first," he said; "mercy to the living afterward.

Said Simone de Beauvoir in her groundbreaking book The Second Sex , "Just as in America there is no Negro problem but rather a white problem; just as 'anti-Semitism is not a Jewish problem; it is our problem'; so the women problem has always been a man's problem. . . . Men have always held the lot of women in their hands; and they have determined what it should be, not according to her interest, but rather with regard to their own projects, their fears, and their needs.

There's one rule for the men and another for us,

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

Maud did not see homosexuality either as a crime or a sin; rather, she saw it as an attribute existing most likely from birth, beyond conscious control.

She never wanted Robbie to feel entitled because he was a boy, and she never wanted Vanessa to feel limited because she was a girl.