"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
— Gloria Steinem

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."
— Jane Austen

"...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
— Abigail Adams

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics)

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
— Eric Berne

"Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now."
— Joss Whedon

"Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."
— Kathryn Stockett (The Help)

"I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two."
— Alanis Morissette (Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill)

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt (This is My Story)

"I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches."
— Abigail Adams

"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
— Milton Friedman

"Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see. "
— Naomi Wolf (The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot)

"The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?"
— Pat Schroeder

"Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges."
— H.L. Mencken

"Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production."
— Gustavo Gutiérrez (A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation)

"All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words."
— Harvey Milk

"Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers."
— Gustavo Arellano (Ask a Mexican)

"... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor."
— Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)

"Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted."
— Isaiah Berlin (The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas)

"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely."
— Aristotle

"A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity."
— Philip Pullman

"I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious."
— Peter Cameron (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You)

"In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal."
— Lucretia Mott

"We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden."
— Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World)

"If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me."
— W.H.Auden

"The Nazis are not justified by saying,

Don't you know that there is more than just the issue of the Jews? The issues are more complex than that! What of the poor in this country, who cannot afford housing? What about the sick and malnourished? Don't you care about these people? Don't you claim to be a follower of Jesus?!

Supporting a murderous political agenda with such an argument is tragic!

And what do we know about Obama? He is the single most anti-life proponent that has ever run for the office of president. "
— Joseph Bayly

"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."
— Aristotle

"In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal."
— John Christopher (The Sword of the Spirits)

"Love knows no gender.--
while,unfortunately,closed-mindedness knows no end."
— Kaytrina

"That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent."
— Aldous Huxley

"That bar also delineated the realm of sweat and hourly wage, the working world that college was educating me to leave. Rewards in that realm were few. No one congratulated you for clocking out. Your salary was spare. The Legion served as recompense. So the physical comforts you bouth there—hot boudain sausage and cold beer—had value. You attended the place, by which I mean you not only went there but gave it attention your job didn’t deserve. Pool got shot not as metaphor for some corporate battle, but as itself alone. And the spiritual comforts-friendship, for instance—couldn’t be confused with payback for something you’d accomplished, for in the Legion everybody punched the same clock, drew the same wage, won the same prize."
— Mary Karr (The Liars' Club: A Memoir)

"There is no dividing line for love-it is not as judgmental as most humans.Love is above all the earthly drama."
— Kaytrina

""All men are created equal. No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words." "
— Harvey Milk

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. "
— Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli

"We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it."
— Ayn Rand

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.