Quotes about Equality

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*

One love, one heart, one destiny.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I don't know what things were like between you and Griff, but I'm not like him. I want a woman to stand beside me, not trail along behind. That was Griff 's way, but it was wrong. I don't want you to be afraid of me. And maybe if you sass me a little, even if I get mad, you'll see that you can trust me to never hurt you. I promise it before you and before God. I want you to believe me.

I don't reckon men are supposed to think," Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. "That's why God gave 'em big muscles." Mandy tilted her head sideways for a second. "Makes as much sense as anything else." Sophie nodded. "Men do the lifting and women do the thinking. That sounds fair. I suppose God could have planned it that way.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome."

We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.