Quotes About Equality

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in genre.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

BJP's ideology doesn't permit discrimination on the basis of caste, sect, or religion. Everyone born in India is equal for us.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Feminism is like any female-dominated group - a perpetual catfight.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme poverty.

As a nation, we must address the persecution of all religious minorities.

Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Equality has become a sort of remote deity, which is routinely worshipped but has ceased to inspire any living faith.