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Quotes About Equality

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.
~ Rita Mae Brown
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
~ Rita Mae Brown
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
~ Rita Mae Brown
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
~ Rita Mae Brown
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
~ Rita Mae Brown
When God made man she was practicing.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
~ Rita Mae Brown
We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself.
~ Rita Williams-Garcia
I came without my consent into this perverse world; since I am here, I am a citizen of the universe; I am a cosmopolitan, like Diogenes, I embrace with my love the entire human race. All mortals together, yellow, black, and white are everywhere my neighbours, are everywhere my relatives.]
~ Ritchie Robertson
When I was growing up, no one could get away with telling me I couldn't do something "because you're a girl." In fact, if someone wanted me not to do something, that was the worst thing they could say: It practically guaranteed I'd run out and try to do it.
~ Rivka Solomon
What's the link between the woman who boldly fights for social justice and the one who boldly has fun? Both are acting powerfully, because each is rejecting preconceived notions of how females 'should' behave.
~ Rivka Solomon
For any one group to be free, everyone needs to be free no one should be stopped-not by stereotyping, not by violence-from expressing his or her full range of emotions and abilities.
~ Rivka Solomon
Two rights don't equal a left.
~ Roald Dahl
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
~ Rob Bell
We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the books of law' - to embody justice and equality in legislation.
~ Robert A. Caro
Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life.
~ Robert A. Caro
Why should we feel bound today by a document produced more than two centuries ago by a group of fifty-five mortal men, actually signed by only thirty-nine, a fair number of whom were slaveholders, and adopted in only thirteen states by the votes of fewer than two thousand men, all of whom are long since dead and mainly forgotten?2
~ Robert A. Dahl
That the idea of equality was alive and well among Viking freemen in the tenth century is attested to by the answer given by some Danish Vikings when, while traveling up a river in France, they were asked by a messenger calling out from the riverbank, "What is the name of your master?" "None," they replied, "we are all equals."3
~ Robert A. Dahl
That the idea of equality was alive and well among Viking freemen in the tenth century is attested to by the answer given by some Danish Vikings when, while traveling up a river in France, they were asked by a messenger calling out from the riverbank, "What is the name of your master?" "None," they replied, "we are all equals.
~ Robert A. Dahl
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
~ Robert A. Heinlein