Quotes About Equality

Nevertheless, in order to produce more equality and uniformity in the defence of any doctrine, its fundamental principles must be committed to writing. May these two volumes therefore serve as the building stones which I contribute to the joint work.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.

Peter Elers, one of the first openly gay vicars in the Church of England, who blessed a lesbian 'marriage' in 1976 on the understanding that, if the Church blessed battleships and budgerigars, it ought to find it in its heart to bless men and women in love.

How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.

You can't make the poor rich, by making the rich poor

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

Girls just want to have funds.

The universal quest to find balance and harmony between men and women, beings who are at once so alike and so different, lies at the heart of all Amazon tales.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

I am the androgyne.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child's mother or some man's wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope

Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us.

The living, politicized woman claims to be a person whether she is attached to a family or not, whether she is attached to a man or not, whether she is a mother or not.

Procreative choice is for women an equivalent of the demand for the legally limited working day which Marx saw as the great watershed for factory workers in the nineteenth century. The struggles for that "modest Magna Carta," as Marx calls it… did not end capitalism, but they changed the relation of the workers to their own lives.

The faceless, sexless, raceless proletariat. The faceless, raceless, classless category of "all women". Both creations of white Western self-centeredness. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.