412 quotes found
“You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth.”
“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers w...”
“The solution to womens issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human c...”
“We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.”
“Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.”
“I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarri...”
“We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.”
“I feel like we should stop calling feminists 'feminists' and just start calling people who aren't feminist 'sexist' and then everyone else is just human.”
“All men are equal before fish.”
“I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I cannot do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything t...”
“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me ...”
“We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men are equal where they are not equal, nor proceed uponthe assumption that there is an equality where ...”
“We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse!”
“The job of the politician is to speak for all people; not just for parties with vested interests, or organisations with the biggest wallets. The first people a politician should protect are those t...”
“A woman, who considers herself to be mature, has every right to insist certain respectful expectations be met by a man, but not if her behavior is consistently childish, selfish, foolish or disresp...”
“Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.”
“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with '...”
“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”
“The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly goo...”
“Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must ...”
