Quotes About Equality

It is past time everyone sees Negro girls can be touched by white hands without lust or anger. If Martha loses her show, that is nothing compared to what Negro girls lose every day when people don't understand that.

In Detroit we understand the phrase "Affirmative Action" a little different than they do in the rest of the world. In Detroit it means: Take a step, don't step back, don't talk, don't wait—act! Knock your brother upside his head and drag him through the water, but save his life. Affirmative action is a lifesaving dance.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn't mean the weaker one doesn't love the stronger.

What I took it to mean was: women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities.

There is no relationship. Women, like men, women, children, babies hamsters. This is the Google Translate of the quote in Persian, above.

And for an insane moment she thought, this is no different from normality, just women existing and surviving, this is what happens to women who don't fit into a world created by men.

Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

This may feel true for every era, but I believe I am living in a time where disabled people are more visible than ever before. And yet while representation is exciting and important, it is not enough. I want and expect more. We all should expect more. We all deserve more.

We should not make disabled lives subject to debate

These stories do not seek to explain the meaning of disability or to inspire or elicit empathy. Rather, they show disabled people simply being in our own words, by our own accounts. Disability Visibility is also one part of a larger arc in my own story as a human being.

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

Elaine Brown's book A Taste of Power. Elaine rose up from an impoverished childhood in North Philly to become the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party, the '60s political organization formed to challenge police brutality, fight systemic racism, and empower black communities.

At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorize their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest.

Se quitó el 'de' de su apellido de casada y lo tiró por encima del hombro. Al caer, el 'de' produjo un estallido de cacerolas de aluminio rodando por las escaleras de la casa: pram pata pram porque la mujer no es propiedad de nadie, ni siquiera del marido pram pram.

Habrá alguna ciudad en el mundo que tenga un monumento reivindicatorio a la prostituta? ¿Un monumento rodeado de jardines y de tristeza, un monumento frente al cual las mujeres suspiren y los hombres se llenen de vergüenza?

Objectification is the female equivalent of emasculation.