Quotes About Equality

Wednesday, June 17, 1789, France went from a system where only the nobility and the church had power to a system where, at least theoretically, the common people did.

French Enlightenment philosophers liked to use slavery as a symbol of human oppression, and particularly political oppression. "Man is born free but is everywhere in chains," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract in 1762. A generation of crusading lawyers put Enlightenment principles into action by helping slaves sue for the right to be treated as ordinary French subjects.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

All things in Life are of equal importance. Only their suspense dates differentiate one from another.

History shows that when you attack the majority it usually doesn't work out well for the minority.

There's no free lunch . . . unless you're an illegal alien.

You say that you fight for all womens rights but half of the babies aborted are women.

differences in behavior arise not because of differences in how men and women are, but in how men and women are treated. This is what the evidence shows: women are less likely to get useful feedback, their mistakes are judged more harshly and remembered longer, their behavior is scrutinized more carefully, and their colleagues are less likely to share vital information with them. When women speak, they're more likely to be interrupted or ignored.

How odd, then, that so much of the recent debate over getting more women into leadership positions has focused on encouraging them to mimic the maladaptive behaviours of ambitious men. Do you really want to ask women to replicate a broken model?

This book explores a central question: what if these two observations - that most leaders are bad and that most leaders are male - are casually linked?

the under-representation of women in leadership was not due to their lack of ability or motivation, but due to our inability to detect incompetence in men.

The result is a pathologic system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence.

Since we all want better leaders, we should not lower our standards when we select women, but we should raise them when we select men.

We had to be seen because we couldn't be heard.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!

Silence equals death.

English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what.

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

The Trickster, of course," Gabriel finally answered himself, "Weesageechak for sure. The clown who bridges humanity and God - a God who laughs, a God who's here, not for guilt, not for suffering, but for a good time. Except this time, the Trickster representing God as a woman, a goddess in fur. Like in this picture. I've always thought that, ever since we were little kids. I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we? And why, for that matter, should God?

I mean, if Native languages have no gender, then why should we?