Quotes About Equality

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Honestly, I do believe in the power of women supporting each other.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn't all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

I love and adore men. I think their energy is so sexy, and fabulous, and active. But the imbalance in the male and female power is deadly. It is literally taking us to extinction.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.