Quotes About Equality

The greatest obscenity is man's inhumanity to man.

but do not come down to the working class and serve as false leaders. You cannot honestly be in the two camps at once. The working class has done without you. Believe me, the working class will continue to do without you. And, furthermore, the working class can do better without you than with you.

Adaleti de adaletsizli?i de kendi tanr?lar?n?n elinden almas? gerekiyordu.

They were all of the same flesh, after all, sisters under their skins;

That is new-womanish talk," he frowned. "Equal rights, the ballot, and all that.

Todos, el bueno y el malvado, el fuerte y el débil, el que amaba la vida y el que la maldecía, todos, todos acababan muriendo.

go after the ones who are greedy, who only want to help themselves, who exploit other people for personal gain. But the fault lies in those individuals, not in the nature of capitalism.

THE SEVENTH HIGHER LAW IS: When You Raise the Bottom, the Top Rises.

T'sain shrugged. "I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life.

The royal Mongol women raced horses, commanded in war, presided as judges over criminal cases, ruled vast territories, and sometimes wrestled men in public sporting competitions. They arrogantly rejected the customs of civilized women of neighboring cultures, such as wearing the veil, binding their feet, or hiding in seclusion.

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace.

Not even the King is above the rule of law.

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

But it's different with a man. You don't expect him to be a virgin.

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

Now that's discrimination—when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That's the trouble with people—they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.

Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy.

And unless you show that you are as good at everything as they are, you find that you spend virtually all your time running behind them screaming like a banshee, 'Me too, me too!

It is just that there be law, but law is not justice

Efficiency is a fact and justice a slogan.

A man charged with a crime has a right to a lawyer, and when the community is most strongly against him, his right is morally greatest.

Patriotism is not a matter of the skin's color. It is a matter of the heart.

Year after year one black in four throughout the general population was arrested for some trivial offense or other, and it was fortunate for them that not all police were as determined and sadistic as the team of Krause and Krog. Their like could be found in most countries; Russia, East Germany, Iran, Argentina, Brazil, all had such interrogators. But the majority of South African policemen tried to be law-abiding officers of justice; Krause and Krog were officers of terror.