Quotes About Equality

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Macho does not prove mucho.

Wenn ein Mann zurueckweicht, weicht er zurueck. Eine Frau weicht nur zurueck, um besser Anlauf nehmen zu koennen.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

Los sentimientos de injusticia que podrían ser aprovechados para conseguir una mayor igualdad se reorientan hacia las manifestaciones más claras del consumismo, y se dividen en miríadas de quejas individuales que se resisten a la agregación o a la combinación, y en actos esporádicos de envidia y venganza dirigidos contra otras personas de su propio bando.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.

No longer can democracy and freedom be fully and truly secure in one country, or even in a group of countries; their defence in a world saturated with injustice and inhabited by billions of humans denied human dignity will inevitably corrupt the very values they are meant to defend.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

It is time we recognised the casual normalisation of lethal misogyny as an act of political terrorism and not, as the mindless purveyors of the free speech doctrine would argue, as simply the democratic right to masturbate to whatever takes his fancy.

The dehumanisation of women is a central political technology in male supremacist cultures. Male supremacy is founded on the idea that women are biologically inferior to men. The girls and women who have been destroyed, driven into silence by madness, murdered or taken their own lives, are the true witnesses of male supremacy.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Achievement has no color

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.