Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill"

Betty Friedan, Activist

Betty Friedan

"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks"

Harper Lee, Novelist

Harper Lee

"I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society"

Joan Severance, Actress

Joan Severance

"I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else"

Arthur Boyd, Artist

Arthur Boyd

"The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which"

E. Y. Harburg, Musician

E. Y. Harburg

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

W. E. B. Du Bois

"A government is for the benefit of all the people"

William Howard Taft, President

"It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not"

Alfred Nobel, Scientist

Alfred Nobel

"Same-sex marriage is not the future"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently"

Tom Robbins, Author

Tom Robbins

"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute"

Rebecca West, Author

"It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

Khaleda Zia

"Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity"

Abdus Salam, Scientist

"I'm not for integration and I'm not against it"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality"

Agnes Macphail, Politician

"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels"

Agnes Macphail, Politician

"George Bush doesn't care about black people"

Kanye West, Musician

Kanye West

"Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs"

Edward W. Howe, Writer

"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other"

Anita Hill, Professor

Anita Hill

"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are"

Spike Lee, Director

"I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal"

Victoria Principal, Actress

Victoria Principal

"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package!"

Sherilyn Fenn, Actress

"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were"

Lena Horne, Actress

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