Quotes About Equality

long as man "has the physical power, as well as the conventional" to treat a woman "like a play-thing or a slave," she'd written portentously to Sophia, "woman must wait until the lion shall lie down with the lamb, before she can hope to be the friend and companion of man.

mind has no sex": there was no limit to what Sophia or any girl might learn. Yet gender did affect the uses of knowledge.

Although he had no dramatic successes to report as yet, Howe knew that he could win supporters by showing them a few blind children working together in a schoolroom to master the rudiments of spelling, mathematics, and even geography from specially crafted globes—unthinkable anywhere in the United States until now.

hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man's crime. Why should women "receive the punishment due to the vices of so large a portion of the rest"?

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.

I pray that it will be different when they're our age. I pray for a cure to the Virus so they can choose not to share their bodies before they're ready. I pray that they will have the power to choose when and how they will marry, make love, make babies. And I pray that they will not be judged if they choose not to do those things in the "right" order.... My sister and I close our eyes. We dream of a better world. We imagine what we can - and will - do to make it possible.

Yet another example of how every girl had to be one or the other: Pretty or smart.

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In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

Even with men doing more parenting than before, the majority of women are still left facing the well-rehearsed motherhood-versus-career dichotomy. But it's not a dichotomy; its a socially organized choice masquerading as a natural one.

if it's so far been our biological situation that we're the ones stuck bearing the children, then there should be a lot more social recompense and reparations for this inequity than there are. The reason these have been slow in coming? Because women keep forgetting to demand them

when women acquire critical skills and start weighing their options, they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors.

But medicine has not simply neglected to research women's health; it has also failed to treat women who are sick. One study found that women in various ERs were 13 to 25 percent less likely to receive opioid painkillers (the strongest painkiller medicine has) than men were.

* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!

As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!

Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!

Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!