Quotes About Equality

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

The great test of masculinity in our modern era is not going into the woods and eating bugs to prove we can overcome our fear in a bold display of our survival skills; it's learning to protect the women in our lives without trying to control them.

the exclusive imagining of God as male has deeply wounded women. Our immersion in these images convinced us that we are excluded from the divine, that we are inferior to men, that we are in need of a male savior, and that to name and imagine God in any other way than he has always been known is blasphemy.

The dethronement of a male God was a crucial task on my journey. My imagination, intellect, and vision were freed of the shackles of a lifetime as his words and images were exorcised from my mind, heart and body.

Competition among women is woven into the fabric of a society that prefers men.

I ask Ama why. "Why," I say, "must women suffer so?" "This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "is to triumph.

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

How come I never have looseleaf?" Richard asked his mother. "How come Holly has everything?" "Because you keep making mistakes," Holly said. "Because you keep wrecking up your paper.

to answer . . . is, 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund

Between the tenets of those two men [W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington], a race strived to untangle its convoluted root, urged its whole self forward, and hurtled toward the door America had fought so hard to keep closed.

Katharine: I can't keep up with you! Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself. - Death on the Family Tree

I was a grown woman before I found out black folks aren't the only ones who have hard times. Everybody's got a struggle. Nobody gets through this life easy.

There is a myth in this country that the way out of poverty is to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," that by sheer force of will one can change the course of one's life, no matter how great the obstacles. But in all my years reporting, I've never once spoken to someone who came from abject poverty and transcended that path without help.

The great object is that every man be armed.

Distinctions between Virginians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

By practicing compassion, you destroy all those artificial barriers and you truly understand that we all bleed red.

I matter as much as anyone else, and my perspective is valid. My thoughts, feelings and emotions are mine and are not wrong.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

Little girls aren't naturally lost," Karen said, frowning as she scanned saucepans. "Someone makes them that way.

And we dream the same in my town as you probably do in a city. We yearn the same, wish the same. We're just as screwed-up and brave and false and loyal and wrong and right as anyone else.