Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. "

Related Quotes:

" To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. "

" In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans. "

" The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. "

" Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. "

" OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington. "

Pramila Jayapal

" I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people. "

iO Tillett Wright

" I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen. "

Sheryl Sandberg

" I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena. "

" I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity. "

Josephine Baker

" To qualify the term 'boss' by adding 'girl' or 'babe' or 'honey' or 'pink' or whatever other ridiculous, antiquated-gender role assignment the media thinks is cute this month, is, at the least, disrespectful and at the worst, damaging to the way young women view themselves and our fight for equality in the business world. "

" The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. "

" I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there. "

" The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. "

" When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.' "

" Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality. "

Rashid al-Ghannushi

" The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. "

" I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality. "

" The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT equality, and I think we are a better movement when we give people space to grow and learn. We can't reduce it to a single issue like marriage equality. "

" Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. "

" I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. "

" I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. "

" In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough? "

" The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. "

Shirley Chisholm

" I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country. "

" There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work. "

Ken Livingstone

" I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. "

" Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities. "

" My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law. "

Eric Schneiderman

" The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top. "

" People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. "