Quotes About Equality

The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.

men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky

After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America." -Elizabeth Bisland

That the woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected , and near his heart to be beloved.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.

A civilization is judged by how it treats the vulnerable.

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us. Animals are so easily overlooked, their interests so easily brushed aside.

Couldn't everyone see that the point of merit is to hold power accountable, not to supply yet another excuse for unaccountable power?

Human beings are not built to function in a radically unequal world.

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. —GANDHI T

No se tienen dos corazones, uno para los animales y otro para los humanos. Se tiene un corazón o no se tiene.»

I have not been deaf to truth" and "I have not winked at injustice.

To protect patrilineal descent, men have for centuries tried to control women's sexuality. Although man needs woman, he tries to keep her power under control, legislating against women's free use of her sex in case she compromises the fragile but tenacious social structure of our patriarchal society.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost;

since the days of the great martyrs, that woman was ready with the same gift of self, the same patience, the same sacrifices, the same greatness of soul and was about—less perhaps in blood than in tears, for it is always on her that sorrow ends by falling—to prove herself the rival and the peer of man.

The relation of the human & animality is not a hierarchical relation, but lateral, an overcoming that does not abolish kinship

The psychology of men and women in our civilization does not signal an eternal masculine or feminine...We must not...consider the attributes of the woman or the man as natural, but as historical.

His love shone as impartial as the sun.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black