Quotes About Equality

we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human being in subjection..." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth

Never hurt a woman unless you absolutely and positively mean it" - James "The Buck" Bukowitz

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.

And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.

The recovery of ethics under neoliberalism requires a multiplicity of factors- not just governments- who can create overlapping spheres of justice to achieve a complex equality for the laboring power in America and elsewhere. The question remains whether the political sphere continues to be a vital force in the struggle for democratic rights beyond the human needs of hidden, exploited refugee and immigrant workers.

plus lastly, It shouldnt matter who you are (or) what your work place is. Self-defense is Self-defense. No one has the right to lay any pyshical abuse on "ANYONE .

There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.

it is the colonized man who wants to move forward, and the colonizer who holds things back.

and no race has a monopoly on beauty, on intelligence, on strength

There is not in the world one single poor lynched bastard, one poor tortured man, in whom I am not also murdered and humiliated.

car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre de l'homme vient seulement de commencer et il reste à l'homme à conquérir toute interdiction immobilisée aux coins de sa ferveur et aucune race ne possède le monopole de la beauté, de l'intelligence, de la force . . .

Even then Communists would reproach me for speaking of the Negro problem—they called it my racism. But I would answer: Marx is alright, but we need to complete Marx. I felt that the emancipation of the Negro consisted of more than just a political emancipation.

Could you imagine a world where everyone is 'Blind'? i'm thinking we all need to try and see the world from the view of a blind man... then and only then, will the color of ones skin be completely irrelevant..

The only thing worse for a woman than making herself dependent on a man—'" Nell finishes her sentence: "'—is to have a child dependent on her.

Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

What is the essential difference between banknotes, coins, and chicken shit? None.

If its liberation is not human enough to include the liberation of women it will not be liberation

I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician

liberation is about human flourishing. It is about creating systems that do not limit the ability of human beings to flourish, to reach their highest potential.

I had no idea that Black women only get 0.2 percent of all venture capital investments until I was looking and saying, "Where's the money?

No life is more important than another. And nothing has been without purpose. Nothing. What if we are all part of a great pattern that we may someday understand? And one day, when we have done what we alone are capable of doing, we get to rise up and reunite with those we have loved the most, forever embraced. What if we get to become... stars.

They tell you in this country that you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And we all believe that. But first you've got to have the boots. And the federal government gave Franni's family the boots.

In the foreseeable future, I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war." Then