1,457 Quotes About Equality

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ...

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.