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Quotes About Equality

The Red Cross nurses came out to the train to give us coffee and doughnuts. Our officer, our captain, who was white, he said serve the Germans first. Our Red Cross nurses said, no, we'll serve our boys first.
~ Unknown
To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
~ Melvil Dewey
The name of the game in the United States is to sue. It's a national pastime. We probably sue more than any other country and thank God we do. It's the little guy who brings the little suit that makes life safer for all of us.
~ Unknown
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
~ Mencius
Tots els homes són iguals de qui sap quines maneres.
~ Unknown
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
~ Mercedes Lackey
Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.
~ Mercedes Ruehl
Our only hope for the redemption of woman from the thralldom of dress lies in the belief that her hitherto limited sphere of activities has been so insufficient for her intellectual occupations that she has been forced to expend her thoughts in decorating her person, instead of enlarging her mind.
~ Unknown
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
All these assistants are given female names and default identities by tech executives and developers—no accident. "I think that probably reflects what some men think about women—that they're not fully human beings,
~ Unknown
As computing became a highly paid profession, women were also edged out. It was the result of deliberate choices.
~ Unknown
No minority in this country or anywhere else has gained its rights by remaining silent, and no revolution has ever been made by the wary. Or the self-pitying.
~ Unknown
Each homosexual must, of course, come out at his own time and in his own way, but homosexuals, the older as well as the younger, the ones in Brooks Brothers suits as well as those in black turtleneck sweaters have, I think, an obligation to declare themselves whenever they decently can.
~ Unknown
It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry
~ Merle Shain
Human Right is the Right and the Right belongs to the one in Danger.
~ Unknown
The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.
~ Merlin Stone
At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?
~ Merlin Stone
Herodotus of Greece, several centuries before Diodorus, wrote that in Egypt, "Women go in the marketplace, transact affairs and occupy themselves with business, while the husbands stay home and weave.
~ Merlin Stone
In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?
~ Merlin Stone
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
~ Meryl Streep
Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer ne može se misliti tu?om glavom.
~ Unknown
Kakve su da su, žene su mudrije i bolje od muškaraca. To pred njima ne treba re?i, ali su muškarci glupi, sujetni, uobraženi, ne vrijede mnogo, me?u nama re?eno. I ?udo je kako nas žene trpe.
~ Unknown
Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. 'I wouldn't be where I am today without my wife,' they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.
~ Unknown
Woe betide any bishop who told the Relief Society president she couldn't do a meeting on the theme she had selected.
~ Unknown