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Quotes About Equality

Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate.
~ Marlon James
But sometime, a negro get tired of white man stomping so he grab the foot, twist and break it. Sometime a negro say, Enough done be enough now.
~ Marlon James
But he starting to confuse representing people with owning them, and soon even he going need a reckoning.
~ Marlon James
Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one.
~ Marlon James
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
~ Marlon Wayans
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.
~ Marlon Wayans
I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.
~ Unknown
I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.
~ Marsha Norman
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged… —Holy Bible, Matthew 7:1
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
In every human being, black or white, there exists, however dimly, a certain natural identification with every other human being, so that we tend to feel that what happens to a fellow human being also in some way happens to us. Therefore no man can very long continue to abuse another human being without beginning to feel in himself at least some dull answering stir of discomfort.
~ Unknown
We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer.
~ Unknown
The arc of the moral universe is long, and it bends toward justice.
~ Unknown
During oral arguments, Howard Wimberley, assistant attorney general for Texas, presented the state's two-class theory, which had been used in previous trials to explain why Mexican Americans were not called for jury duty. Wimberley argued that in Texas there were only two races, Blacks and whites, and only Blacks on occasion needed the government's protection from hostile whites.
~ Unknown
In the aftermath of the Slaughter-House Cases ruling, the Texas Legislature and state courts passed laws giving clubs, organizations, and businesses the authority to refuse entry or services to any person, for any reason.
~ Unknown
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
~ Martha Plimpton
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
~ Martha Plimpton
women are prohibited from ground combat
~ Martha Raddatz
as among equals, and in purity and kindness — cannot exist between spouses." At this there was a small
~ Unknown
When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are not strengthening her prosocial sense;you are damaging it--and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.
~ Martha Stout
Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.
~ Martha Wells
The Cordans believed the women needed men to provide for them; Moon had no idea why. He knew that Selis in particular was perfectly capable of chasing down any number of grasseaters and beating them to death with a club, so he didn't see why she couldn't hunt for herself.
~ Martha Wells
As the waiter led them among the tables, Nicolas saw that Madeline was by no means the only woman dressed as a man, or vise versa in the crowd.
~ Martha Wells
The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves.
~ Martha Wells
How can you judge something fairly when you don't know what the rules are? You can't play God, because you aren't God.
~ Martha Williamson