Quotes About Equality

Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was cultural; that the first could be changed but the second could not. - Gloria Steinem

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals." —MAHATMA GANDHI

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

the Enlightenment dream of inevitable human progress, grounded in the claim that we are all born free and equal in dignity and rights, and premised on hope that the arc of history bends toward justice, is now in tatters.

Alexis de Tocqueville.

Every one I talk to is in favor of putting negroes in the army and that immediately … I think slavery is now gone and what little there is left of it should be rendered as serviceable as possible." For her part, Mary Chesnut lamented, "If we had only freed the negroes at first and put them in the army—that would have trumped [the Union's] trick.

Just because you're a slave to your lover in the bedroom doesn't mean you have to be a slave to him in the rest of your life.

Human beings are not "resources"to be owned by some one.That would be slavery.Human beings do possess resources.We called those "Humantalents".One human being cannot manage another human being.We can only manage their unique talents to make this world a better place for every one

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.

Ayla should have been the son of my mate." Brun to Broud, Clan of the Cave Bear.

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Quatorze juillet : partout le bleu, le blanc, le rouge. Divine, par gentillesse pour elles, méprisées, s'habille de toutes les autres couleurs.

O Dieu, si tu veux que jamais plus femme n'élève la voix, crée enfin un homme adulte!

It means: I bow to the divine light within you and you bow to the divine light within me.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself — like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.