If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
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.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
The man who didn’t want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
I am sure that every one of my colleagues – Democrat, Republican, and Independent – agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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.
All men are born equally free.
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
