Quotes About Equality

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.

At the end of the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair. ...Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. "Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough.

You're a fine little boy," Mr. Starr, said. "But it isn't nice of you to lord it over your sister." "What's 'lord it'?" "Brag about things you can do, that she can't do yet. That isn't nice.

Relief and fear were equal in her.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right to exist in a free world.

Womenfolk just tend to get lost, he'd always say; it's just a weakness they've got.

The universe has no favourites; it is supremely just, and gives to every man his rightful earnings.

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

JANEANE GAROFALO: Life is a boys club.

Thou should not judge harshly, because thou too will be so judged by the same measure

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Everything must belong to everybody and must present the hypothesis of a world without god, without king, without government, without masters.

Some of the women, it must be said, had not yet accepted the idea that a woman could be Municipal President. They had been told that they were moody and flighty and illogical and incapable for so long that they believed these things.

Still. We are both man and woman. My brothers can be tender as mothers with their infants. Women can fight like tigers. Do you see? We are all a mix of each. Power starts when you strike the proper balance. Believe me when I tell you that the woman part of you is the better part. But you are also a man.

There should be no such thing as an illegal person on this planet.

Em comparação com o que a mulher, historicamente, sofreu num mundo dominado por homens e seus terrores, o que ela sofre com a Natureza é pinto. Com trocadilhos".

Entonces el derecho a la educación no sirve, Pati

If you're not white, you have to be brilliant, just to be considered acceptable.