Equality Quotes

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

Only by the jostlings of equality can we form a just opinion of ourselves.

Gay rights are human rights.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.