CURATED COLLECTION

The Fight for Equality

Equality has never been handed down from above — it has always been taken from below.

50 quotes found

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My work has been about reaching out, joining hands with all kinds of people.

—Dorothy HeightActivist & King

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Nobody can give you freedom, equality, or justice. If you're a man, you take it.

—Malcolm XActivist & Minister

Post-War ERA • North America

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We must promote gender equality. A nation cannot develop when half its population is marginalized.

—Ellen Johnson SirleafPolitician & President

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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The world has never seen a great nation, because degrading woman poisons life at its source.

—Lucretia MottAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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If the women want rights more than others, give them enough to help them get it.

—Sojourner TruthAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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My song is a weapon against injustice, a voice for the voiceless.

—Amparo OchoaActivist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Every human has a right to their own Story. No one can take it away.

—Olga TokarczukNovelist & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Every single one of us has a story. And when we tell our story, we're powerful.

—Oprah WinfreyAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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The future of the children is always today. Tomorrow will be too late.

—Gabriela MistralPoet, Diplomat & Author

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Break all chains. Burn all prisons. Rise, O oppressed! Your time has come.

—Kazi Nazrul IslamPoet, Musician & Revolutionary

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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Our whole life has been a protest against every form of wrong.

—Lucretia MottAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Being a woman is the great theme of my life, my great battle.

—Rosa MonteroJournalist & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • Southern Europe

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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

—Ama Ata AidooAuthor, Poet & Playwright

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Freedom is not given. It is taken by the people themselves.

—Albertina SisuluActivist

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Let the equality be established: men and women are two parts of one perfect whole.

—Marie de GournayWriter, Editor & Feminist

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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We are not alone. Africa, Asia, and the free and liberated peoples from all corners of the world will always be found at the side of the Congolese.

—Patrice LumumbaScholar & Thinker

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

—Gloria SteinemFeminist, Activist & Journalist

Late Modern ERA • North America

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I sing of equality, of brotherhood, of a world free from fear.

—Kazi Nazrul IslamPoet, Musician & Revolutionary

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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The living owe it to those who no longer speak to tell their story for them.

—Edwidge DanticatNovelist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Caribbean

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