Quotes About Equality

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights

According to Goddard's standards, 47 percent of the white soldiers and 89 percent of the blacks should be categorized as morons. The average white soldier, the psychologists found, had a mental age of thirteen years, just barely above the cutoff for feeblemindedness. The majority of Americans, in other words, was feebleminded or close to it.

In 1973, the year of his death, Garrett railed against the constitutional right to vote, complaining how "the vote of the feeble-minded person counts as much as that of an intelligent man.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.

If God were attainable with the intelligence, how unjust it would be! It would have made easy the task of the wise and the great of this world, and would have made knowledge of God all but impossible for the little ones, the poor, and the ignorant. But God himself has found the way to be equally accessible to everybody. His revelation comes in love, in that faculty which we can all share.

that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything.

For instance, we need to look with our eyes to laugh," he said, "because only when we look at things can we catch the funny edge of the world. On the other hand, when our eyes see, everything is so equal that nothing is funny.

Everything is filled to the brim," he repeated, "and everything is equal. I'm not like your friend who just grew old. When I tell you that nothing matters I don't mean it the way he does. For him, his struggle was not worth his while, because he was defeated; for me there is no victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and my struggle was worth my while.

Kein Mensch bekämpft die Freiheit; er bekämpft höchstens die Freiheit der anderen.

El nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros.

Del resto, che razza di scienza è quella che porta un uomo sulla Luna, ma non è in grado di garantire un pezzo di pane a tutti gli essere umani?

Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»

It's what I always say: if you want things to turn our well, you must put a woman in charge.

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

Kakva je to znanost koja može ?ovjeka poslati na Mjesec, a ne može staviti komad kruha na stol svakog ?ovjeka?

el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. «Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»

Sigurno ste primetili da nemamo struju, Oskare. Mi zapravo ne verujemo mnogo u postignu?a savremene nauke. Na kraju krajeva, kakva je to nauka koja je kadra da ?oveka spusti na Mesec, a nije u stanju da spusti komad hleba na trpezu svakog ljudskog bi?a? Možda problem nije u nauci, negu u onima koji odlu?uju o tome kako da se ona primeni, primetio sam.

el futuro de la literatura depende de las mujeres

A justiça é uma extravagância da perspectiva, e não um valor universal.

Sie [Lorena] sagte, das Niveau der Barbarei einer Gesellschaft messe sich an der Distanz, die sie zwischen die Frauen und die Bücher zu bringen versuchte. Nichts erschüttert einen Kaffer so sehr wie eine Frau, die lesen, schreiben und denken kann und obendrein noch die Knie zeigt.

Because without truth there is no justice, and without justice there is no peace.

One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

the level of barbarism in a society is measured by the distance it tries to create between women and books.

si uno quiere que las cosas salgan bien hay que poner a una mujer al mando. —No me