Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roxane Gay

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

Abraham Lincoln

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

David Souter

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

There have been some sighs on the phone, but they realize that we're doing this for equality of everyone,

Sara Sheridan

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Isaac Newton

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Cherie Blair

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

who sought to take a leadership role in terms of tolerance, equality and fairness.

Stella Young

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

Bill Cosby

I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent.

Barack Obama

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Ludwig von Mises

An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

Marsha Blackburn

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

Chris Evans

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

D. H. Lawrence

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

D. H. Lawrence

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

Jorge Ramos

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

David Mamet

No one enjoys being equal.

Cicely Tyson

One of the things I have always said about the man-woman relationship is that I don't want anybody to walk ahead of me and I don't want anybody to walk behind me. I want a man who will walk along beside me. And that's how I feel about equal rights.

Alphonso Jackson

In 1965, I marched for equality.

Alice Paul

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alistair Cooke

Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

John Key

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Brigid Brophy

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Bono

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Barney Frank

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

Anthony Trollope

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

Arthur Hugh Clough

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Jacques Chirac

There is a problem and that problem is one of equality of opportunity and respect for everyone in the republic,

Evan Wolfson

We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Dian Fossey

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.