Quotes about Equality
He's a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman
— Margaret Atwood
Then she lent me her red flannel petticoat until I should get one of my own, and showed me how to fold and pin the cloths, and said hat some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her.
— Margaret Atwood
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.
— Margaret Atwood
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
— Margaret Mead
We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.
— Michelle Obama
Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.
— Malala Yousafzai
Science should be on tap, not on top.
— Winston Churchill
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
— Sojourner Truth
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.
— Pope Francis