Quotes About Equality

It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.

The only justification for looking down on anyone, is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

Nadie amasa una fortuna sin hacer harina a otros

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

Cooperen por encima de todo y no se impidan avanzar entre sí ni traten de ganar a costa de alguien más. Cualquier éxito disparejo, será pasajero.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interests of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this, as regards Virginia especially, that I would cheerfully have lost all I have lost by the war, and have suffered all I have suffered, to have this object attained."8

Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.

Luther said, `All Christians are priests and all priests are Christians. Anathema to him who distinguishes the priest from the simple Christian.i4' Luther argued that the simple milkmaid or the tailor with the word of God in his or her hands was able to please God and minister the things of God as effectively as the priest, the prelate and the pope himself. `Ordination does not make a priest, but a servant of priests ... a servant and an officer of the common priesthood.i41

Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?

Because how dare we write our own stories, in our own voices?' CaZZ answers. 'True that,' Tanya says. 'Banning our books would be their way of erasing us, of making us — and the world we live in — invisible,' CaZZ says.

Like most women you are riddled with the missionary instinct, that always seeks to change a man's nature and make it a little higher than the angels; whereas a man knows he can't remake any woman, and if his wife doesn't suit him, he accepts her as she is or goes out and finds another.

Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she

When women are educated, the world is a better place.

Let me tell you," the nun went on, "everyone is equal under God! Prejudice is nothing but ignorance, jealousy, pettiness"—she shook the hose with each word, sending undulating arcs of water into the flower beds—"and intolerance is responsible for all the violence! It's drilled into children from the beginning.

then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet.

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height. —Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

Never has my city been welcoming of the unpaired or the impaired.

The story of the king is the story of the people, and unfortunately, to this day, no king has learned that lesson.

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight

If the cow alone is to be held sacred from slaughter, and not the buffalo, then that is bigotry, not religion.