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Quotes About Equality

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is as much to be learned from a man with little, as there is from a man with much.
~ Unknown
the one as much as it advances that of the other. If a body impinge upon another, and by its force change the motion of the other, that body also (because of the equality of the mutual pressure) will undergo an equal change, in its own motion, towards the contrary part.
~ Isaac Newton
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
~ Isabel Allende
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
~ Isabel Allende
I began to wonder if what makes men walk so lordlike and speak so masterfully is having the love of women. If that was it, Sarah and I would make lords of each other.
~ Unknown
Reconoce que si la libertad para los poderosos y los inteligentes significa la explotación de los débiles y menos talentosos, entonces habrá que limitar la libertad de los poderosos y los inteligentes.
~ Isaiah Berlin
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.
~ Isaiah Berlin
All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
~ Ishmael Reed
democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks
~ Ishmael Reed
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine.
~ Isobelle Carmody
Under that democracy, license was not confounded with freedom. Political 'equality' has been understood in two senses: as meaning either that all are to share absolutely alike, or that every man is to receive his due. Our ancestors preferred that 'equality' which does not efface the distinction between merit and worthlessness.
~ Isocrates
Take this single tree. They could cut it down and make half of it into an incense tray, decorate it with lacquer set with gold or silver filigree, and set it in an alcove of an aristocrat or man of high rank as a tasteful ornament. The other half they could make into wooden clogs for stepping through the mud. When you look at the two different shapes, one is admired while the other is considered mean, but they're the same in terms of the cutting down of a living tree.
~ Unknown
When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
~ Italian proverb
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
Es preciso que entre las cosas pensadas y las cosas no haya más diferencias. Entonces seremos felices.
~ Italo Calvino
When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king.
~ Italo Calvino
I went to an airport and asked for a wheelchair. There were three of us in wheelchairs and only two porters, so the guy took two of us at the same time. I cannot tell you how humiliating that is.
~ Itzhak Perlman
I am not trapped in the wrong body; I am trapped in a world that makes very little space for bodies like mine.
~ Unknown
If you do ever decide to go on testosterone, build yourself into a good man. The last thing the world needs is another misogynist prick.
~ Unknown
Sexism is clearly not the continuation of patriarchal power relations in modern societies. Rather, it is a hitherto unthinkable individual degradation of one-half of humanity on a socio-biological grounds. The lower prestige assigned by patriarchal societies (of the Mediterranean or of any other type) must therefore be carefully distinguished from the personal degradation of each individual woman who, under the regime of sex, is forced to compete with men.
~ Ivan Illich