Quotes About Equality

It isn't a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We've got to come up with a better answer.

She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact—she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.

Hope is exactly that, that's all it is, a matter of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we're here for a mere blink of the eyes, that's all.

Certain white people in particular can look right through young people and also black and mixed race people like we aren't here.

I like the idea of blue and pink together, Elisabeth said.

Why should we imagine that gender matters here? the tutor said. That's actually my question too, Elisabeth said.

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

My father told me that if a man is the head of the house, the woman is its heart. And a man without a heart is no more than a corpse.

He say, 'You can be somebody if you want.' How the shit he don't know I'm somebody right now? He think he somebody and I'm not.

and nobody would write peace on no walls...'cause it would be peace...and our hearts would be free!

All of these people were simply asking to be given basic rights that were automatically accorded to all other humans:

The teacher didn't make people with disabilities out to be heroes or sad stories. It was just a description of the world in which people with disabilities were real and present.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too, But very human beings, human just as much as you. It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work abandoned by men? Yes, it is true. Is not a woman's place the home? No, not when men need her services outside the home. Will she never be told again that her place is the home? Oh, yes, indeed. When? As soon as men want their jobs back again.

Mother, what is a Feminist?" "A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don't think she oughter.

Oh, to come home to your country After long years away, To see the tall shining towers Rise over the rim of the bay, To feel the west wind steadily blowing And the sunshine golden and hot, To speak to each man as an equal, Whether he is or not.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Each one we are equal; without a star fating us

Women are not allowed truth, not allowed speaking roles, not allowed to be precise.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.