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Quotes About Equality

Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?
~ Natalie Angier
Writing is egalitarian; it cuts across geographic, class, gender, and racial lines.
~ Natalie Goldberg
If we see their (Navajo) lives and festivals as fantastic and our lives as ordinary, we come to writing with a sense of poverty. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary.
~ Unknown
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
~ Natalie Portman
I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
~ Natalie Portman
I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
~ Natan Sharansky
Before the war, they were happy, he said, quoting our textbook. (This was senior-year history class.) The slaves were clothed, fed, and better off under a master's care. I watched the words blur on the page. No one raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Writing in the context of racial prejudice—as one who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel argued that prejudice is atheism, "a treacherous denial of the existence of God." In other words, prejudice negates any pretence of trying to believe in a God who claims to have made all people in His image. Heschel continues, "Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.
~ Unknown
For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong... we simply coexist.
~ Natsuki Takaya
You know, small stars, large stars, they shine equally bright in the night sky. -Sora Kitazawa
~ Unknown
To include the term AHIMSA in the preamble of the Indian Constitution.
~ Naveen Patnaik
In our country we use different words [than feminism] which mean the liberation or the emancipation of women. Of course I believe in the emancipation of women. It will change a lot of things in society for the better. But, you know, the class patriarchal system under which we live oppresses men too and the discrimination from which women suffer is not good for the life of men. Don't you think so?
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Lelaki revolusioner yang berpegang pada prinsip-prinsip sebenarnya tidak banyak berbeda dari lelaki lainnya. Mereka mempergunakan kepintaran mereka, dengan menukarkan prinsip mereka untuk mendapatkan apa yang dapat dibeli orang lain dengan uang. Revolusi bagi mereka tak ubahnya sebagai seks bagi kami. Sesuatu yang disalahgunakan. Sesuatu yang dapat dijual.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
She delighted to hear words of admiration from a man's mouth, a delicious but never surprised delight, for she was sure something in her was worthy of admiration.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Previously, it hqd brought her the names of famous men who had discovered things. She would bite her nails as she listened, telling herself that if she were a man she would be able to do likewise. Obscurity, she felt that these discoverers had no greater talent for discovery than she, only that they were men. Yes, a man could do things a woman could not simply because he was a man. He was not more able, but he was male, and masculinity in itself was one of the preconditions for discovery.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Previously, it had brought her the names of famous men who had discovered things. She would bite her nails as she listened, telling herself that if she were a man she would be able to do likewise. Obscurity, she felt that these discoverers had no greater talent for discovery than she, only that they were men. Yes, a man could do things a woman could not simply because he was a man. He was not more able, but he was male, and masculinity in itself was one of the preconditions for discovery.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Lelaki tidak tahu nilai seorang perempuan. Perempuan itulah yang menentukan nilai dirinya. Semakin tinggi kau menaruh harga bagi dirimu semakin dia menyadari hargamu itu sebenarnya, dan dia akan bersiap untuk membayar dengan apa yang dimilikinya. Dan bila dia tidak memilikinya, dia akan mencuri dari orang lain untuk memberimu apa yang kau minta.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Saya tahu bahwa profesiku ini telah diciptakan oleh lelaki, dan bahwa lelaki menguasai dua dunia kita, yang di bumi ini dan di alam baka. Bahwa lelaki memaksa perempuan menjual tubuh mereka dengan harga tertentu, dan bahwa tubuh yang paling murah dibayar adalah tubuh sang istri. Semua perempuan adalah pelacur dalam satu atau lain bentuk. Karena saya seorang yang cerdas, saya lebih menyukai menjadi seorang pelacur yang bebas daripada menjadi seorang istri yang diperbudak.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another. Because I was intelligent I preferred to be a free prostitute, rather than an enslaved wife.
~ Unknown
Having human DNA should not immediately grant an individual inalienable rights. Rights, it was decided, and equivalent responsibilities, should be given to 'citizens', and only those above a certain level of intelligence could become citizens. Protests did result when some humans failed to qualify, whilst all AIs and some particularly bright pigs did
~ Neal Asher
Plato wrote in The Republic during the fourth century BC, "Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
~ Neal Boortz
How far are we willing to extend our freedoms? Where is the Exodus for people convicted of innocent, consensual crimes?
~ Unknown
I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
~ Neil Cavuto
First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.
~ Neil LaBute