Quotes About Equality

Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

It occurred to me that every unjustly inflictd death deserved public exposure. Even an Insect's. A death that nobody noticed was twice as scandalous.

But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the green in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse?

Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right?

S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bi?a. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.

What is the point of a law that applies only to some? The law should be observed for everyone without exception, wherever our ships and our money are able to take us.

Infants and old people look the same.

death renders all faces similar.

In a pulpit Man places himself above other Creatures and grants himself the right to their life and death.

In fact, thought Karen, women could get along perfectly fine without men altogether.

Poverty is nondenominational and has no national identity.

Czyli nie da si? zawróci? kobiety z samoniszcz?cej drogi choroby umys?owej? (...) - U m??czyzny silna wola pomo?e zwalczy? niektóre pokusy szale?stwa, lecz kobiety s? jej prawie zupe?nie pozbawione i nie maj? ?adnego or??a do walki.

Each man was my brother and each woman my sister. We were so very much alike. So fragile, impermanent, and easily destroyed.

On the walls hung black-and-white portraits of men—it was only in the physics department that you could find the single female face in the whole school, Madame Maria Sk?odowska Curie's, the sole indication of the equality of the sexes. These

He looks like a guy who discovered not so long ago that he's not really so different from everybody else - thus attaining, in other words, his own enlightenment. (page 408)

Wojnicz ju? zauwa?y?, ?e ka?da dyskusja, czy sz?o o demokracj?, czy o pi?ty wymiar, czy o rol? religii socjalizm, Europ?, wreszcie sztuk? nowoczesn?, wszystko w ko?cu sprowadza?o si? do kobiet

There never was a man who said one word for woman but he said two for man and three for the whole human race.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Always in our dreams we hear the turn of the key that shall close the door of the last brothel; the clink of the last coin that pays for the body and soul of a woman; the falling of the last wall that encloses artificially the activity of woman and divides her from man; always we picture the love of the sexes, as, once a dull, slow, creeping worm; then a torpid, earthy chrysalis; at last the full-winged insect, glorious in the sunshine of the future.

I forced myself to think rationally, something that is conveniently omitted from the upbringing of us women (otherwise my God how we would change the world!)

But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.