Quotes About Equality

For this was the real desert where differences of race and colour, of wealth and social standing, are almost meaningless; where coverings of pretence are stripped away and basic truths emerge.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don't pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes.

Büyük sava?ç?lar?n yapt??? kötülükleri de?il de, büyük adamlar?n dü?üncelerini içinde duyabildi?in an, çocuklar?n?n ö?retmenlerine politikac?lardan çok daha fazla ücret verildi?i an, kad?nla erkek aras?ndaki sevgiye, bir evlenme cüzdan?na gösterdi?inden daha büyük bir sayg? duydu?un zaman güzel olacak ya?am?n.

The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never have enough respect for true humanity as it is visible in the persons of the totally uneducated classes, and never enough humility if one sometimes believes one is superior to them.

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?

if we want people to feel that they have been treated with respect and dignity, we might have to tolerate some noise.

Simon shook his head. 'The Nazis in Germany…the Japanese here in Shanghai…Treating people as less than human because of the shape of their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes it feels like the whole damn world is unraveling.

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

egalitarianism allows them to use the term "sir" in very few instances.

Few sons are the equals of their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them." —

The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of "benign neglect."

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

Toutes les juives ne sont pas mères, mais toutes les mères sont juives.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

La pasarela de personajes que desfilaron durante estos agitados años es fascinante: Voltaire, el escritor que revolucionó las mentes; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, el suizo que habló de un nuevo pacto social; Montesquieu, el barón que defendía la separación de los poderes y la de los negros109; Georges-Jacques

You know the old Russian proverb, Allon. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine.

The men and women pray separately," the Saudi observed archly. "Much to the dismay of more liberal Jews." "Perhaps we can change that." "Shwaya, shwaya," said Gabriel.

If someone is woke, it means they care about issues involving racial intolerance and societal injustice.

Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.