269 private quotes tagged equality

“A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.”— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.”— Michelle Bachelet

“The battle for women's rights has been largely won.”— Margaret Thatcher

“Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.”— Erica Jong

“In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.”— Marlo Thomas

“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.”— Marlo Thomas

“Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.”— Bernadette Devlin

“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”— Iris Murdoch

“What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.”— Charlotte Bunch

“More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.”— Kofi Annan

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”— Carl Schurz

“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.”— Toni Morrison

“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”— Andrew Jackson

“The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.”— Morris Dees

“I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”— Patricia Ireland

“I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.”— Christine Gregoire

“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.”— Honore de Balzac

“Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.”— Sonia Sotomayor

“I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.”— Agnes Macphail

“Nobody really believes in equality anyway.”— Warren Farrell

“All imaginable futures are not equally possible.”— Kevin Kelly

“All men are born equally free.”— Salmon P. Chase

“Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.”— Mike Honda

“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”— Patricia Ireland

“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”— Barry Goldwater