Equality Quotes

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." "Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone" "America never was America to me." "You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest" "The effect of such a confession—that one's value is the same as anyone else's—is that it heightens the possibilities of love." "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" "Suffrage is the pivotal right" "We ask only for justice and equal rights—the right to vote the right to labor the right to serve as jurors and then the judgment of our peers" "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." "You don't have to be rich to be my girl" "The principle itself of liberty and the Social Contract is a rights-logic applicable to all human beings without discrimination." "I can promise you that women working together linked, informed, and educated can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet." "I’m a girl, and I have the right to be proud of that." "Women are leaders in every that must be made—whether in the corporate boardroom or in the home" "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities"