Famous quotes containing the words gender, equality, debate and/or law:
“... lynching was ... a womans issue: it had as much to do with ideas of gender as it had with race.”
—Paula Giddings (b. 1948)
“You cant protect women without handicapping them in competition with men. If you demand equality you must accept equality. Women cant have it both ways.”
—Mary Bell-Richards. Protective Legislation in England, Equal Rights (October 3, 1925)
“What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
“JudgeA law student who marks his own examination-papers.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)