Quotes About Equality
perhaps the sexes are more akin than people think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in one phenomenon: that man and woman, freed from all mistaken feelings and aversions, will seek each other not as opposites but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to bear in common, simply, earnestly, and patiently, the heavy sex that has been laid upon them.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Because he loves only as a male, and not as a human being
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Come here into the candlelight. I'm not afraid to look at the dead. For when the dead come they have as much right to sojourn in our gaze as any other thing.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Quizá los sexos estén más emparentados de lo que se cree y la gran renovación del mundo consistirá, quizá, en que el hombre y la mujer, liberados de todos los sentimientos erróneos y de todas las desganas, no se buscarán como opuestos, sino como hermanos y vecinos; y se realizarán juntos como personas, a fin de llevar conjuntamente, con seriedad y paciencia, el sexo, que es difícil y que les ha sido impuesto.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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And perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and woman, freed of all sense of error and disappointment, seeking one another out not as opposites but as brothers and sisters and neighbours, and they will join together as human beings, to share the heavy weight of sexuality that is laid upon them with simplicity, gravity and patience.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and woman, freed of all sense of error and disappointment, seeking one another out not as opposites but as brothers and sisters and neighbours, and they will join together as human beings, to share the heavy weight of sexuality that is laid upon them with simplicity, gravity and patience.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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And perhaps the sexes are more related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbours, and will come together as human beings, in order simply, seriously and patiently to bear in common the difficult sex that has been laid upon them.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Und vielleicht sind die Geschlechter verwandter, als man meint, und die große Erneuerung der Welt wird vielleicht darin bestehen, daß Mann und Mädchen sich, befreit von allen Irrgefühlen und Unlüsten, nicht als Gegensätze suchen werden, sondern als Geschwister und Nachbarn und sich zusammentun werden als Menschen, um einfach, ernst und geduldig das schwere Geschlecht, das ihnen auferlegt ist, gemeinsam zu tragen.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Aparecerá la mujer cuyo nombre ya no significará sólo algo opuesto al hombre, sino algo propio, independiente. Nada que haga pensar en complemento ni en límite, sino tan sólo en vida y en ser: el Humano femenino...
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Eines Tages wird das Mädchen da sein und die Frau, deren Name nicht mehr nur einen Gegensatz zum Männlichen bedeuten wird, sondern etwas für sich, etwas, wobei man keine Ergänzung und Grenze denkt, nur an Leben und Dasein - der weibliche Mensch. Dieser Fortschritt wird das Liebe-Erleben, das jetzt voll Irrung ist (...), verwandeln, von Grund aus verändern, zu einer Beziehung umbilden, die von Mensch zu Mensch gemeint ist, nicht mehr von Mann zu Weib.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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When we meet others, we should not think of ourselves as superior and look down on them or pity them, but see them as the source of our happiness.
~ Rajiv Mehrotra
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Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.
~ Ralph Ellison
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Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the common people. But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-
~ Ralph Ellison
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He's only a man. Remember that. He's only a man!
~ Ralph Ellison
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And in order for the Negro to fulfill his duty as a citizen it was often necessary that he fight for his self-affirmed right to fight.
~ Ralph Ellison
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prepared to make the ultimate wartime sacrifice that most governments demand of their able-bodied citizens, but his was one that regarded his life as of lesser value than the lives of whites making the same sacrifice.
~ Ralph Ellison
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Shouldn't the short man have the right to make a mistake without his motives being considered consciously or unconsciously malicious?
~ Ralph Ellison
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Well, you had better speak more slowly so we can understand. We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times. All right, now, go on with your speech.
~ Ralph Ellison
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How could you treat a Negro as equal in war and then deny him equality during times of
~ Ralph Ellison
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Here I had thought they accepted me because they felt that color made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either color or men ââ'¬Â¦ For all they were concerned, we were so many names scribbled on fake ballots, to be used at their convenience and when not needed to be filed away. It was a joke, an absurd joke.
~ Ralph Ellison
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a delegate shout out from the floor: "Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the CIO! We cannot stop for controversy!" And there in the faces of my people I saw strength. There with the whites in the audience I saw the positive forces of civilization and the best guarantee of America's future.
~ Ralph Ellison
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What did I do To be so black And blue?
~ Ralph Ellison
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I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans.
~ Ralph Ellison
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We mean to do right by you, but you've got to know your place at all times.
~ Ralph Ellison
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