Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Are not your ways unequal? Ezekiel 18:24-26&29
And there was a strict command throughout all the churches that there should be no persecutions among them, that there should be an equality among all men. Book of Mormon: Mosiah 27:3
Complete equality of rights for all nations; the right of nations to self-determination; the unity of the workers of all nations – such is the national program that Marxism, the experience of the whole world, and the experience of Russia, teach the workers. Vladimir Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
All of high society was here ... Was she a suicide mission or was it simply a stunning stunt ... The cause had gained a martyr. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power ***** BBC 2015
That saw women fire-bomb buildings. Assault. Or commit acts of terrorism across the country. ibid.
A fight that is centuries old. And a fight I believe that is still going on today. ibid.
300 wife fairs ... Wives fairs were technically against the law ... The woman was the property of her husband, so why should he not sell her like a piece of meat? ibid.
Rape in marriage was not made a crime until 1991. ibid.
A petition: these women were Levellers, a radical political movement that argued the new Republic of England should be democratic. ibid.
The worse crime a woman could commit in the eighteenth century was the murder of her husband. ibid.
1958 until they were legitimately permitted to sit in the House of Lords. ibid.
Today Mary Wollstonecraft is fated as Britain’s first feminist. She’s so hip. ibid.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women was now smeared with the blood of the guillotine. Its brief moment was past ... She suffered a tabloid-style destruction. ibid.
The mother of the movement for women’s rights. ibid.
‘Charity is the call of the lady, the care of the poor her profession.’ ibid. Moore
With a lawyer for a husband, and a politician for a lover, Caroline knew full well that legal rights had to be secured by act of parliament. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power II
It wasn’t just women who were politically disadvantaged in nineteenth century Britain ... Only one in five men could vote. ibid.
‘The real question is whether it is right and expedient that one half of the human race should pass through life in a state of forced subordination to the other half.’ ibid. John Stuart Mill
Another Victorian giant John Ruskin ... A critic and social thinker. ibid.
The Contagious Diseases Acts encouraged the arrest, detention and screening of women as young as thirteen on suspicion they might be infected with a sexually transmitted disease. ibid.
They did not have the right to be awarded a degree. ibid.
The spectacle of the female cyclist. ibid.
The Conservative Party’s Primrose League. ibid.
They remained second class citizens ... The injustice of sexual discrimination. ibid.
What the Match-girls did next: In July 1888 1,400 women and girls walked out through the gates of the Bryant and May match factory here in Bow East London. ibid.
Just what could be achieved with direct action: a new type of political protest was born. Banner: National Federation of Women Workers. ibid.
The militant suffrage campaign had stirred up a vocal opposition. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power III
The growing popularity of female football ... Women’s teams were banned. ibid.
Fundamental sexual inequalities still remain. ibid.
Millions of people living and dying in wretchedness and poverty in an age when science and machinery have made it possible to produce such an abundance of everything that everyone might enjoy plenty and comfort. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
Companies across Britain are in the spotlight on pay. Now the government’s making large companies declare their gender pay gaps. But is your boss playing by the rules? Dispatches: The Truth About Your Pay, Channel 4 2018
A new industry has sprung up offering advice on the reporting legislation. ibid.
Every day Britain is discovering just how much more men are earning than women. Nearly fifty years after equal pay became the law, could this be the year that things finally change? Panorama: Britain’s Equal Pay Scandal, BBC 2018
Britain is divided: the rich live far longer than the poor. And it’s getting worse: the life expectancy gap is widening. Panorama: Get Rich or Die Young, BBC 2018
The most common factor is low income. Having less money limits your choices. ibid.
Did you know in the UK women get paid on average 14% less than men? … From women on the supermarket shop floor who are earning less than the men in the warehouse to the female stars of film and TV women are still fighting for equal pay. Why Do Men Earn More Than Women? Channel 5 2018
I live in a war zone every day. There is a war on women. It’s real. It can be very ugly. Seeing Allred, Gloria, 2018
She is easily the most famous women’s rights attorney in the country. ibid. television reporter’s comment
For Gloria, the Bill Cosby case is everything she is looking for. ibid. Laurie Levenson
Outside the venue Gloria Allred was leading the biggest protest to date against the comedian. ibid. television presenter
She talked about sexual harassment when nobody wanted to talk about it. ibid. commentator
More than forty women have publicly accused him [Cosby] of drugging and sexually assaulting them. ibid. Gloria
Today another woman has courageously come forward to accuse Donald Trump. ibid.
‘This was a vicious violent system; you could die trying to register to vote.’ Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America, History 2018
‘What we saw as a problem, they saw as a solution.’ ibid.
‘Their courage, their love, transformed the history of this country by affecting the hearts of people thousands of miles away.’ ibid.
Nearly a century after slavery, racial segregation was the law across the South. ibid.
The strategy begins with a single act of defiance. ibid.
The movement also chooses its leader: 26-year-old minister who is determined to keep the protests going. ibid.
The Civil Rights Act is the most sweeping change in social policy since the Civil War. ibid.
‘We must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.’ ibid. Johnson
Equality is still elusive. ibid.
100 years since the first women got the right to vote we’re still taking to the streets demanding to be treated equally. Have we really made so little progress? … In the aftermath of shocking equal pay revelations, the Weinstein sexual harassment scandal and the protest movements that followed. The Trouble with Women with Anne Robinson, BBC 2018
We are not born equal, Guy, so we must be made equal by the fire and then we can be happy. Fahrenheit 451 2018 starring Michael B Jordan & Michael Shannon & Sofia Boutella & Khandi Singh & Martin Donovan & Andy McQueen & Dylan Taylor & Grace Lynn Kung & Keir Dullea et al, director Ramin Bahrani, Captain Beatty
I’m travelling to the extreme edge of modern British masculinity. Fifty years after women began a march for equal rights, the battle of the sexes is being fought on a new front, but this it’s not by women, it’s by young men. I want to know why so many young guys feel overlooked, overly judged, and under attack. And as growing numbers take to the internet and social media becomes a weapon of hate, I want to find out why a new generation of men feel the real victims of sex discrimination are guys. Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK: Men at War, BBC 2019
Many of the men I met at the seminar claimed they had to hide their views and the faces for fear of repercussions at work. ibid.
There seems to be a weird sense of paranoia in this world. ibid.