Quotes About Equality

It is no use blaming the men – we made them what they are – and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves – the makers of men – a little more responsible.

A women needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

Oh, Mother, not you too! We cannot deny people their rights simply because there may be a few bad members of their group who abuse them. We may as well lock ourselves up, then. Heaven knows there are plenty of bad humans - humans who do not Shift into animals but simply harbor an evil we might all potentially possess.

This was probably a good time to remember folks really were the same everywhere.

Reckon women don't think like men." "Why on earth don't they learn how?" I rubbed my face. "Ain't meant to, honey." I smiled and kissed his brow. "It occurs to us to ask the same thing. Keeps the world turning, I suspect.

It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.

want to wear scarlet velvet and slippers and lace gloves and ride in a stage instead of wearing calluses on my hands driving a team like a man. It is not her fault. She is right. The Lord looks on the inside, although people look on the outside. That man is measuring cloth

pictured that one Indian man I stood so close to I could hear his breathing, and those filthy, awful men I killed, and I know Indians aren't no dirtier than any white folks and cleaner than some. Not stupid, either. But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie.

A feminism that is truly anti-racist and anti-imperialist must also be anticapitalist.

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; it's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

It'll be okay. There are a lot of unfair things in this world, and gay people certainly come in for their share of them—but so do lots of other people, and besides, it doesn't really matter. What matters is the truth of loving, of two people finding each other. That's what's important, and don't you forget it.

No hablábamos mucho sobre lo que suponía ser homosexuales o no; la mayor parte del tiempo hablábamos sobre nosotras. Entonces lo importante éramos nosotras, no las etiquetas.

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

A girl who chooses to use good manners is telling the world she believes that other people matter as much as she does. She's saying that life isn't about what one person does for herself but about what people can do together for the common good.

How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people?

This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.

We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while others can be dismissed as less deserving of the American dream.

For most Americans of the eighteenth century, it was assumed impossible for a servant to shed his lowly origins; the meaner sort, as one newspaper insisted, could never "wash out the stain of servility." There were fears that the meaner sort were treading too close on the heels of those above them.

How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people? Twenty-first-century Americans need to confront this enduring conundrum. Let us recognize the existence of our underclass.

Unlike others before him, Oglethorpe felt the disadvantaged could be reclaimed if they were given a fair chance.