Quotes About Equality

But I really thought that me and her had something. Then I thought about how a lot of people, black and white don't like the idea of a white geezer and a black bird getting it on. One day it won't matter a fuck, we'll all be coffee-coloured with a tint of yellow. Till then we got a load of grief tae get through.

you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

Give us but the chance and a new generation of Earthmen would grow to maturity, lacking insularity and believing wholeheartedly in the oneness of Man.

the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

Now why should there be a special word for a man with dark skin? There was no special word for a man with blue eyes, or large ears, or curly hair.

Yet weren't all human beings simply human beings no matter what name you applied to them[?]

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too.

If it were evenly distributed, said Rodman, the example of justice in the world might lead at last to a sane world policy. As it is, there is world despair and fury over the selfish fortune of a few, and all behave irrationally in revenge.

An unjust law," said R. Daneel evenly, "is a contradiction in terms.

I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.

Since when does prejudice follow any law but its own.

It is one thing to be democratic, quite another to be inconvenienced.

Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.

They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals.

Pues... la gente que quiere distribuir un poco la riqueza y desea evitar que se concentre en manos que no son las que la producen. ¿Comprende lo que quiero decir?

Pero ya lo ve, no se pueden hacer diferencias entre un robot y el mejor de los humanos.

And a woman striding among them like an equal.

Humanity today forms a single species and can interbreed freely. Differences in color of hair, skin and eyes are largely due to differences in the quantity of a pigment called melanin, and this does not affect humanity's essentially unitary character. Nor do differences in the shape of the eye or nose, in the shape of the skull, or in height.

Sei tu dalla parte del torto, John, quando parli di diritti "inalienabili". Quello che tu chiami un "diritto" è meramente un privilegio, generalmente accettato. Ciò che la società accetta, quello è diritto; il resto non conta.»

Cada uno quiere gran dosis de igualdad para sí..., pero no tanta para los demás». [Hacia la Fundación]