Quotes About Equality

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

This administration is totally colorblind.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Politics is not about power.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

The political is personal.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)