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Quotes About Equality

This world demands nothing short of perfection from women who aim high, and our need to see perfection in women has, until recently, far outweighed our need for their participation.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?
~ Amber Tamblyn
To men a man is but a mind. Who caresWhat face he carries or what form he wears?But woman's body is the woman. OStay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
~ Amelia Earhart
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.
~ Amelia Earhart
Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.
~ Amelia Earhart
Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
~ Amelia Earhart
I, for one, hope for the day when women will know no restrictions because of sex but will be individuals free to live their lives as men are free—irrespective of the continent or country where they happen to live.
~ Amelia Earhart
It was generally called the "powder puff derby" and those who flew in it variously as "Ladybirds", "Angels" or "Sweethearts of the Air". (We are still trying to get ourselves called just "pilots".)
~ Amelia Earhart
A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.
~ Amin Maalouf
When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.
~ Amin Maalouf
Tu pleures comme une femme ce que tu n'as pas su défendre comme un homme.
~ Amin Maalouf
What we need to do is enter sensibly into an age of liberty and peaceful diversity, casting aside the injustices of the past without replacing them by new ones or by other kinds of exclusion or intolerance, and recognising the right of everyone to include several linguistic allegiances within his own identity.
~ Amin Maalouf
If You punish with evil the evil I have done, tell, what is the difference between You and me?
~ Amin Maalouf
İki gül kondurdum yanaklar?na, açan bir gülücük yapt?m dudaklar?nda. Geriye itme beni, Yasa'm?z aç?k, EktiÄŸini biçme hakk? da Vard?r her insan?n.
~ Amin Maalouf
Siento que no hayamos podido daros un mundo donde la gente no necesite protestar.
~ Amin Maalouf
L'homme n'appartient ni à sa langue ni à sa race : il n'appartient qu'à lui-même, car c'est un être libre, c'est un être moral. »
~ Amin Maalouf
On ne leur reprochait pas leurs opinions, leurs propos, ni leurs actes, on leur reprochait leurs origines, qu'ils n'avaient pas choisies et qu'ils ne pouvaient pas modifier.
~ Amin Maalouf
On ne s'est pas contenté de dénoncer les excès de l'égalitarisme, c'est le principe même d'égalité qu'on a remis en cause, et dévalorisé.
~ Amin Maalouf