"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps." ― Patricia Ireland Topic(s): Equality More From Patricia Ireland "We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it’s a public and political problem. It’s a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places." "When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law." "Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success." More In Equality "To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."― Samuel Butler "The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars – an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do."― Michael D. Higgins "Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."― Mikhail Bakunin