Quotes About Equality

Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.

No one quite believed that freelancing and being a mother qualified as actual work.

We came when a lot of other Asian people came, after the law changed." "I remember that," I say. And I do, more or less. I remember Kennedy talking about the need for it—calling the old system of racist quotas intolerable—though it was Johnson who finally signed it.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

All this stuff about serving and stations. We are all the same now. There are no stations, no nests, no hollows. We're all orphans. We've all seen horrible things. The world is different now. And part of that difference is that there is no difference between any of us.

All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered. Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey... a woman can be just as evil as a man.

Our high school suffered a huge loss of life. But as awful as the tsunami was, good things actually came of it. We learned that out there on the ocean, there's no such thing as popular kids and unpopular kids. We were all equal and all valuable.

women enrich life.

Hatred is not a crime.

Simone de Beauvoir: The day when it will become possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger.

He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.

Far more important, they took me and my interests very seriously. They never tried to discourage me from becoming a doctor, even though it was an era that breathed, If woman, be a nurse.

A woman's name will always suffice, but if you'll keep your ears open in a room with men and women, you'll hear it's the call used least often.

So for a long time you were kept in the shadows, and people did their best not to think about you. And if they did, they tried to convince themselves you weren't really like us. That you were less than human, so it didn't matter.

We won the right to be free citizens. And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out. That's what dignity's really about, if you'll excuse me, sir.

Potser algun dia tots aquests conflictes s'acabaran, i no serà pas gràcies a cap gran estadista o a cap església o a cap institució com aquesta. Serà perquè la gent haurà canviat. Seran com tu, Puffin: una barreja. ¿Per què no ho hem de voler ser, mestissos? És una cosa saludable.

Sufficiently generous and liberal to be open to all students of high caliber, even some who haven't benefited from genetic editing.

Then he reached up and tore my shirtfront open. Not much to see, is there? I said, struggling to talk with a crushed windpipe. I know, I know, they can fix things like that these days. Call me a feminist, but I think a woman's worth should be defined not by the size of her bust, but - I rammed my fist up into his Adam's apple. He grunted and stumbled back. - by the strength of her right hook.

There are just as many bitches out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.

I don't know what a hard-ass feminist is. I'm a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I'm sure you're about to give an example of where I failed in that.

I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them.

I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care of me?" Dad flushed. "I didn't mean it like--" "Takes care of me? Did I go to sleep and wake up in the nineteenth century?

We should let the girls handle this." "Huh?" Corey said. "We just need to make a phone call, right? Hell, I'll give them my other twenty to cover it." "I just…I think we should hang back. We're in rough shape. That guy with the van was worried about me, not Maya." Corey sighed. "Fine. For once, you've earned the right to paranoia. Go get 'em, girls." He passed me the twenty. "Just in case.

One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to.