英语格言警句_Equality_(E14)

Women have convinced ourselves that we can do what men can do. But we haven't convinced ourselves and therefore haven't convinced our country, that men can do what women can do.

- Gloria Steinem

Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The search for human freedom can never be plete without freedom for women.

- Betty Ford

Can a woman bee a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social wele of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

- Susan B. Anthony

No man is good enough to govern another man without his consent.

- Abraham Lincoln

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

- Frances Fox Piven

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

Equality is not similarity. Equal merit does not mean that one is suited to the same tasks.

- George Sand

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's interests without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

- Carl Schurz

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

- Thomas Mann

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

- Thomas Paine

Just think -- guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

- Eleanor Smeal

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never bee a reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process--facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being sentenced by the judge--the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd character is treated worse than the orthodox.

- Howard Zinn

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

- Arthur Ashe

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to bee.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

- Lillian Hellman

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

- Marlo Thomas

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

- Bella Abzug

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

- Rowan D. Williams

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest. [1855]

- Lucy Stone

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

- G. K. Chesterton

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.

- Anna Quindlen

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

- C. S. Lewis

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our mon life.

- Jane Addams

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

- Gloria Steinem

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

- John Dewey

When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long.

- Lya Sorano

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few to ride them.

- Thomas Jefferson

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene V. Debs

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

- Winston Churchill

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.

- Tennesse Claflin

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

- Irving Kristol

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as inpetent as some of the men who are already there.

- Maureen Reagan

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

- Harry A. Blackmun

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to being his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

- Confucius