Quotes About Equality

Unlike the fairy tale princes, real men do not like having to save someone.

Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn't understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that's what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn't just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of.

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and even the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world.

It was also true that after I learned about coverture from my reading, I became less and less inclined to hand over my half of our inherited fortune and all my legal and property rights—including the rights of my own body—to a husband.

was also true that after I learned about coverture from my reading, I became less and less inclined to hand over my half of our inherited fortune and all my legal and property rights—including the rights of my own body—to a husband. It would have to be a grand love, indeed, for me to willingly merge so completely with a man that I was all but legally obliterated.

Men impinged upon women without thought; another male right in a world of male rights.

You're a woman,' said Ogo. Ayndra spat, 'Ha!' and then started laughing. She turned her back on him again, and pulled an undertunic over her head. Through the wool she said, 'And what of it?' 'I . . . I thought you were a boy.' 'I never told you so.' 'No, but . . . I thought . . . there's a rule of no women in the camp.' 'No women in the camp. Is there a rule of no women in the army?

We want men to admire us for our courage, our characters, and our intellect, not just our beauty.

But I wish you to know that, were I just Edward and you just Jane, I would prefer to marry you. We accord well together, and have similar views… Kings cannot make their own choices. I wished you to know that

It was impossible for Catus to understand that, in Celtic society, women had status and could rule. In Rome, women had the same legal standing as children.

All of you are above me, and I am above all of you.

Modernity promised that all human beings would be treated equally. Women took that promise seriously and rebelled against the old order. Women, now liberated and with equal careers, nevertheless find they still desire to have children, but have no basis for claiming that men should assume a responsibility for them. So nature weighs more heavily on women. In the old order they were subordinated and dependent on men; in the new order they are isolated, needing men, but not able to count on them.

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.

Male experience is what patriarchal culture uses to represent human experience, even when it is women who most often live it.

Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

The more powerful a woman is under patriarchy, the more 'unsexed' she becomes in the eyes of others as her female cultural identity recedes beneath the mantle of male-identified power and the masculine images associated with it. With men the effect is just the opposite: the more powerful they are, the more aware they are of their manhood. In other words, in a patriarchal culture, power looks sexy on men but not on women.

All their lives they've said how Folks that don't Work should Starve. Now they can't work but they ain't ready for what they been wishing on the shiftless of all races.

We're in America; why do I have to "Press 1" for English?

Cuando la ley de amor y de caridad sea la ley de la humanidad, ya no habrá egoísmo: el débil y el pacífico ya no serán explotados ni pisoteados por el fuerte y el violento. Tal será el estado de la Tierra cuando, según la ley del progreso y la promesa de Jesús, venga a ser un mundo feliz por la expulsión de los malos.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.