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Quotes About Equality

to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery.
~ Octavia E. Butler
have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Help us to make America great again
~ Octavia E. Butler
Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Once he's made everyone who isn't like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn't cause. That's easier than trying to fix the problems.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression. We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to took down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Poor doesn't matter as much if you can make a place for yourself and be respected.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kevin, you don't have to beat people to treat them brutally." "Wait a minute," he said. "I'm not minimizing the wrong that's being done here. I just …" "Yes you are. You don't mean to be, but you are.
~ Octavia E. Butler
You know the kind of shit men say to one another when they want to stop other men from listening to a woman.
~ Octavia E. Butler
As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There were still some Humans who insisted on seeing the ooloi as some kind of male-female combination, but the ooloi were no such thing. They were themselves—a different sex altogether. So
~ Octavia E. Butler
language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear. As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It bothered me very much that they took both women away. The fat crazy woman had been permitted to go about her business until someone resisted. Then both victim and victimizer were treated as equally guilty.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Some middle class men prove they're men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships. Some upper class men prove they're men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls. Nasty.
~ Octavia E. Butler
He had a man's voice already. He had everything but a man's brain.
~ Octavia E. Butler
This country has slipped back two hundred years.
~ Octavia E. Butler
First-person American slave narratives should have ceased being written when the last American citizen born into institutionalized slavery died.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Without democracy freedom is a chimera
~ Octavio Paz
I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
~ Ogden Nash
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
~ Ogden Nash
I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
~ Ogden Nash
By going together we would at least be assured a common fate. In the future, as in the past, my place would be at my husband's side.
~ Unknown