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Quotes About Equality

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
~ Bryan Stevenson
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement.
~ Strom Thurmond
People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.
~ Sheila McKechnie
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
~ Qiu Jin
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.
~ John Mellencamp
It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.
~ Emma Watson
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
~ Sara Paretsky
I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.
~ Chief Joseph
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.
~ Martin O'Malley
I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.
~ Pattie Boyd
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
~ Kathryn Stockett
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
~ Andrei Platonov
Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn't seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He's nuts about kids and loves justice.
~ Bob Goff
The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.
~ Nat Hentoff
What you might not know is that shortly after she worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others, Rosa Parks had to leave her home in Alabama to escape the constant threat of violence.
~ Michel Martin
As leopard feels at home with leopard.
~ George Eliot
I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.
~ SonReal
President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.
~ Christine Pelosi