Quotes about equality
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
I need not flatter any man he has nothing to give me
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men but over themselves.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
Some women do not masturbate for pleasure they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).
Ursula K. Le Guin -
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Letters and Papers from Prison
In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.
Nikki DiCaro - The Practical Guide to Gender Transition: A Teachable Moment
Knowledge is the foundation for understanding understanding the catalyst for peace.
John Howard Griffin - Black Like Me
We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him how to hold our own and raise ourselves in his esteem without for one moment letting him think he had any God-given rights that we did not also have.
Peggy Noonan -
Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
George Bernard Shaw -
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
W.H. Auden - Selected Poems
We have no destiny assigned us:Nothing is certain but the body we planTo better ourselves the hospitals alone remind usOf the equality of man.
DaShanne Stokes -
One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important it's an act of revolution.
Bangambiki Habyarimana - The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Man is divided into two categories men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men.
Thomas Paine - Rights of Man
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
Kamand Kojouri -
Prejudice is an act of violence.
Katherine Boo -
She was simply Asha, a woman on her own. Had the situation been otherwise, she might not have come to know her own brain.
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly.
Rhealyn -
We are given a great power, we should capable enough to handle it and use it fair and square.
Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt
In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also the Taoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would always point out. In Travancore it rose out of the Buddhist idea of compassion, in Yingzhou from the Hodenosaunee idea of the equality of all, in Firanja from the idea of justice before God. Everywhere the idea existed, but the world still belonged to a tiny minority of rich; wealth had been accumulating for centuries in a few hands, and the people lucky enough to be born into th
Thomas Jefferson (?) -
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?
Lierre Keith -
Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.
John Stuart Mill -
Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.
Ryszard Legutko - Triumf człowieka pospolitego
…egalitarianism and despotism do not exclude each other, but usually go hand in hand. To a certain degree, equality invites despotism, because in order to make all members of a society equal, and then to maintain this equality for a long period of time, it is necessary to equip the controlling institutions with exceptional power so they can stamp out any potential threat to equality in every sector of the society and any aspect of human life: to paraphrase a well-known sentence by one of Dostoye
Christina Engela - Inanna Rising: Women Forged in Fire
The religious right sees every group trying to achieve equality with them as a threat, because if they become equal to them, THEY won't be able to abuse their human rights anymore. Giving other people equality WITH THEM, in their minds takes something away from THEM - POWER - and that TERRIFIES them. It scares them shitless.
Darnell Lamont Walker -
The power structure understands that Black folks have been hungry for so long, fixing us a plate now that's the same size as theirs would do nothing for our hunger. After all, they're pretty full and fat.They know we now require a much bigger plate than theirs to quiet the stomach rumblings.They see us and know what it looks like to be less powerful. They are fighting to never FEEL it.
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place.
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Isaiah Berlin - The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason
The natural and untainted male mind respects and loves the woman and her magnificent scope of capability and creative gifts.
Martin Guevara Urbina - Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America
Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables us to shift the winds of luck, reshape the forces of fate or destiny, and, ultimately, empower us to become free authors of our own lives, for the true art of human expression is the ability to express our dreams, thoughts, and emotions as we feel them or as they come to mind, as we search for universal equality, justice, peace, love, truth, and reality.
Christopher Hitchens -
As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals are more equal than others'—that he embedded in our language and in our minds. In Orwell's own mind there was an inextricable connection between language and truth, a conviction that by using plain and unambiguous words one could forbid oneself the comfort of certain falsehoods and delusions. Every time you hear a piece of psychobabble or propaganda—
Criss Jami - Healology
Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers.
Usman W. Chohan -
Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.
Bikash Bhandari -
Whenever you take an action,Decide by both your brain and heart in equal proportions .Balance them as far as possible.
Lynsay Sands - A Quick Bite
For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.
Daniel Defoe -
I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us of it; that I thought a woman was a free agent as well as a man, and was born free, and, could she manage herself suitably, might enjoy that liberty to as much purpose as the men do; that the laws of matrimony were indeed otherwise, and mankind at this time acted quite upon other principles, and those such that a woman gave herself entirely away from herself, in marriage, and capitulated, only to
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.
Trevor Noah - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.
Amrita Ramanathan -
If you've gone through pain now, learned your lesson, chances are, you'll probably experience MINOR pain later in life. If you haven't witnessed any pain now, you might suffer greatly later in life. In the end, everyone is equal.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy -
The terms `Husband' and `Wife' are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status.
Robert Thier - Storm and Silence
Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.
Karen Swallow Prior - Abolitionist
…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.
Lucretia Mott -
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
Natalia Marx - Fireheart
With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.
Natalia Marx - Fireheart
Syldor was not a land of oppressive rules, roles, and labels. Here, love and power were open to, for, and between all; woman or man, rich or poor. What mattered was the sharpness of your mind, the speed of your blade, and the heat of your touch.
Natalie Perry -
The truth is, I have gay dads and I’m not damaged. I grew up with an incredible and loving family that always provided for me when I was younger and has continued to guide and support me as I’ve grown older.
Natalie Perry - Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
What I don’t understand is how some people say they can recognize the necessity to provide people with equal treatment under the law but they say it only applies in certain situations. People still use their religion and morality as an excuse to deny services to those perceived as other.
Natalie Perry - Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
We can’t say it’s justifiable to deny some people their rights because we personally find something offensive. People have the right to their beliefs and they have the right to think that homosexuality is wrong, but they don’t have the right to use their religion and their beliefs to deny the rights of others.
Natalie Perry - Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
Our family had waited so long for this moment and had spent so many years being told we were undeserving of this basic right. But for me there was a sense of validation because after eighteen years, I was finally able to stand with my two dads when they legally wed.
Natalie Perry - Dad #2: A Queerspawn View from the Closet
People have the right to their opinions. But I also have the right to my family. No one in our country should be put in the situation where they grow up in fear because our society has decided some people are valued less than others.
Patricia A. Gozemba - Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages
The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY.
Mitch Albom - and Life's Greatest Lesson
The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then there will be no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.
Suzy Kassem -
NO TRUTH, NO LIGHTNo truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.
Malcolm X -
But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.
Ron Regé Jr. - The Awake Field
Oh my dear! Peace is something we all create together! No one person gets to take credit for it! That's the whole point! Each person matters equally. Every heart radiates a center of joy. In this way we learn to care for our world by understanding our responsibility to one another and to ourselves!
Ziggy Marley -
Just Do What you feel, and Don't you fool yourself
Nelson Mandela -
If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.
Dalai Lama XIV - The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings
From the Buddhist point of view, all living beings -- that is, beings with feelings, experiences, and sensations -- are considered equal. Human beings can live without eating meat. As human beings, I think that deep down our nature tends towards vegetarianism and leads us to do everything in our power to prevent harming other species.
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Karl Marx - Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did. God didn’t draw up religious barriers to separate us from each other. Man did. And on top of that, no father would like to see his children fighting or killing each other. The Creator favors the man who spreads loves over the man who spreads hate. A religious title does not make anyone more superior over another. If a kind man stands by his conscience and exhibits truth in his words and
Peter Cameron - Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.
Arundhati Roy - The Cost of Living
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth. Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering a
Charles Bukowski - You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
the gods play nofavorites.
George Carlin -
He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Understanding languages and other cultures builds bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to Truth. Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil gardeners to try and convince you which flowers are ugly and which should be destroyed. This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If you see ugliness in his creations, then you see ugliness in our Creator. Wake up. If we eliminate all colors in his garden, then what would be a rainbow with only one color? And what would be a garden with only one kind of flower? Why woul
Jean-Paul Sartre -
All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Paulo Coelho - By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
Mary Wollstonecraft - Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from the friendship and intimacy which can only be enjoyed by equals; and that charity is not a condescending distribution of alms, but an intercourse of good offices and mutual benefits, founded on respect for justice and humanity.
Alaric Hutchinson - Living Peace
All beliefs are equally valid.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.
Rai Aren -
I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must feel like for our non-human friends - the fear, the terror, the pain - and I will not cause such suffering to a fellow living being.
Harper Lee -
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
George Carlin -
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
Joss Whedon -
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.
Stevie Nicks -
When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.
C. JoyBell C. -
The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and
Theodore Roosevelt -
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Mahatma Gandhi -
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective a
Kathryn Stockett - The Help
Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.
Rai Aren - Secret of the Sands
Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...
Eric Berne -
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
C. JoyBell C. -
We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is n
Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
W.H. Auden -
If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.
bell hooks -
Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood feelings of being engulfed surface. While they could not 'smash their mommy' and still receive love, they find that they can engage in intimate violence with partners who respond to their acting out by trying harder to connect with them emotionally, hoping that the love offered in the present will heal the wounds of the past. If only one party in the
E.M. Forster - A Room with a View
This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?
God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.