"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall." - James M. BarrieTweet
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present." - Franz BoasTweet
"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them." - Mordecai Wyatt JohnsonTweet
"What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force." - Bell HooksTweet
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards." - Bertrand RussellTweet
"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals." - Brigid BrophyTweet
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality." - Rowan D. WilliamsTweet
"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered." - Andrea DworkinTweet
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power." - Barbara JordanTweet
"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion." - Mario Vargas LlosaTweet