Quotes about Equality

An index is a great leveller.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

These fellow mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are.

When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.