We teach girls shame. Close your legs; cover yourself. We make them feel as though being born female, they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who silence themselves. They...

Tidak Jem, kukira hanya ada satu jenis manusia. Manusia.(Jem) Pikirku juga begitu, saat aku seusiamu. Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk...

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry....

It’s time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin’ black and white. You can see a black person. But now to...

It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender equality – is to achieve that moment where eyes are opened so wide...

I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom’s way, Where greed...

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Whatever is deeply, essentially female–the life in a woman’s expression, the feel of her flesh, the shape of her breasts, the transformations after childbirth of her skin–is being reclassified as ugly, and ugliness as disease....

Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their...

We were all born to be peaceful citizens of the world. Take care of your global garden and do not allow evil gardeners try to convince you which flowers are ugly and which should be...

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Ehren wir die Freiheit. Arbeiten wir für den Frieden. Halten wir uns an das Recht. Dienen wir unseren inneren Maßstäben der Gerechtigkeit.”[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the...

Peter, you’re not crazy,” William said. “Nobody’s really crazy. That’s just a word. Isn’t it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody’s a word.

But that’s always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he’s more powerful he kills everything that’s different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And...

You will always receive what you are equal to.

People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

The Flight of Providence To do what is right, we tryAgainst the odds, we tryYou are not like us, they sayStand downWe fight, and only God knowsFor our right to existFor the truthWe are manifest...

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

A day will come when a woman will be elected to the top of the pyramid, to be a prime minister or a president, and the whole world will know her and hear about her....

But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a bidding war commenced, amongst these civilized gentlemen who made their living off the...

The only equality that exists on earth is time. We all have exactly 24 hours in a day. How we choose to spend those hours is what separates us.

Take me as godfather.” The man asked, “Who art thou?” “I am Death, and I make all equal.” Then said the man, “Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the...

I’m not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated...

All men are born free: just not for long.

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they’re not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and...

Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why...

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

For if our bodies aren’t our own,And justice isn’t ours,And our love is just a sin,And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people,What have we left to lose?

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

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

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is.

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

[T]he more clamour we make about ‘the women’s point of view’, the more we rub it into people that the women’s point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is —...

All humans are alike and all humans are equal. It is just the perception of the eye that sees any different.

Death is the only equality guaranteed in life. A poor man will die just as surely as a rich man.

There is no peace among equals because equality doesn’t exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, or both negotiate their differences and create a greater partnership.

The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human inventions, as the name implies – and our species deserves the credit. I...

She finally said: ‘I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else’.

The Human Rights Campaign has been proud to be part of the enormous progress made on the road to equality over the last 25 years, … While we have miles to go, the national dinner...

The judicial wheel is rounded with equality, oiled with honour and functions smoothly with honesty – principally when both members of the Bench and Bar shoulder their responsibilities seriously.

The problem is that we don’t believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex–or, if “beautiful,” her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac:...

While Ian Paisley refuses to share power with nationalists and republicans on the basis of equality and respect Direct Rule Ministers (from Westminster) continue to take bad decisions which impact adversely on people right across...

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than...