Quotes About Equality

It doesn't matter what you've got in your pants if there is nothing in your brain to connect it to.

The black man was expected to follow the dictates of Sol and the white masters. Good Negro communists were to be unquestioning Negro communists, who sat quietly and did as they were told. A good black communist listened to the white communist—his comradely master. For all their bluster about elevating blacks, this was how communists treated their African-American brothers.

The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.

How come the white male politicians who vote against affirmative action are always so willing to accept a handicap on the golf course?

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I'm proud of it.

Women, I have long believed, are the more evolved of the species and have attained some higher level of being.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

We try to live and let live, but underneath it, we're left with a smug sense of superiority about ourselves and vague disgust for others who don't measure up.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

I don't want to be superior to anyone for being afraid. We already have a culture built on that.

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences a country that respects all, regardless of their differences a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too

Pick up the world and turn it over, as Mama liked to say, and you won't find fair written anywhere on it.

Once upon a time, women were the equals of men. Not only by law, although that was important, and the result of many hard-fought and difficult battles. But also by culture and by custom. Men came to accept that women should have the same rights of self-determination that they enjoyed. But then there was the Overturn, and the great crisis caused by sudden and catastrophic climate change.

Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people. [as quoted in "Brain Gain" by Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 4/27/09 issue]

Apparently long hair was enough to make you a faggot in Chicago in '68.

That Socrates was unpretentious almost to a fault, never believing wisdom was his alone or made him superior, but that everyone possessed it if one could only talk it out.

A curious paradox here: hand in hand with the political rebellion of the age went a certain omnisexual freedom, but that meant you could sleep with anyone, not that you could be gay.

Being different was about something more than just our dicks.

You need only to have glimpsed it once to know there's a window out of all this black and sleepless night. Then you must use it to hope on. Key to the dream country where all your people are whole again, and the gunboats can't reach you, and the Empire of Hate is rubble. You and your secret dream of freedom are the tidal wave. Keep watch, every night if you have to. As for sleeping, you can sleep when you're dead.

I know white folks, they can't take it. Because all of their lives, white people have been told they're the shit. White people always told you 'You're the best, you're everything, you're wonderful, you come from heaven, you're eve-ry-thing, you've never done nothing to nobody, you wear the white hat, you're the good fucking guy,' and the minute they hear [a] a nigga talking about [race] it freaks em.