Quotes About Equality

But—what if other women decide they want to do what he did? Just stop being women and become men instead? There will be an epidemic. Everyone will want to be a man." I was very quiet. She had just revealed a lot about how she felt as a Mormon woman.

He who divides and shares is left with the best share.

O senhor não tem cor, Doutor. As pessoas não têm cores. Ou têm cores que não têm nome.

Nós, mulheres, estamos sempre sob a sombra da lâmina: impedidas de viver enquanto novas; acusadas de não morrer quando já velhas.

Existe dois tipos de pretos: os calçados e os pretos.

Fique a saber, padre, que os opostos são os mais iguais. Não acredita, veja: o fogo não é quem se parece mais ao gelo? Ambos queimam e, nos dois, só através da morte o homem pode entrar.

On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

Não gosto de pretos, Kindzu. - Como? Então gosta de quem? Dos brancos? - Também não. - Já sei: gosta de indianos, gosta da sua raça. - Não. Eu gosto de homens que não tem raça. É por isso que eu gosto de si, Kindzu.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... We were just like you".

My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too. - Mia Hamm

My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

In discussing the slave trade, it is essential to view those trafficked first and foremost as human beings, with families, cultures, and sensibilities – no different from anyone else.

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.

We treat others badly not because we don't understand how people should be treated but because we don't really consider them people.

When we ascend we have to give people what they deserve: dignity. What I understand by dignity is that man is an instrument for love

Let's start this feeling, this mental posture, fraternity, to see in each human being a brother.

By not standing, I wanted to honor the founding principles of this country—the freedom of self-expression, liberty, and the equal opportunity to pursue happiness—and challenge us to try to reach those goals.

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

This striking economic equality lies not only at the core of the happiness and success of the Danes but of the people of the Nordic region as a whole.