Quotes About Equality

unmarried women make good academics because they've been neutered by too much knowledge and bookish pleasure. The world hands them a tiny domain it never cared about to begin with.

What should move us to action is human dignity the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Remove,' I said to myself, `the impetus to private ownership, and you have made the first giant step toward removing the causes of injustice in the world. There would be no greed if there were no possessions, no jealousy, no envy, perhaps even no hatred.

En fin, el mayor entre ustedes ha de ser ministro o criado suyo. 12 Que quien se ensalce, será humillado; y quien se humille, será ensalzado. 13

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.

I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.

Men du måste lära dig att utan rättvisa för alla människor i Sverige kan du inte ha fred. Därför måste ni i Sverige bekämpa och slåss mot rasismen. Bevara Sverige blandat för en fredlig framtid för barnen.

When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

If the world played fair, he'd play fair. But the cards are stacked against the prosecutors and police. Miranda, Mapp, all the other Supreme Court decisions, give the advantage to the skels.

If that's all that troubles you, here, take my veil, wrap it round your head and hold your tongue. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

La Dama de la Justicia lleva los ojos vendados porque no puede soportar ver lo que ocurre.

When Los Angeles was founded in 1781—as a city of angels—by a group of eleven families, it seemed to throw out a welcome mat to people of color. After all, of that founding group—forty-four men, women, and children—twenty-six were of African descent, black or "black Spaniards," as they were sometimes called.

Car là encore ces hommes se livraient à quelque chose de grotesque lorsqu'ils embêtaient leur famille pour qu'elle leur achète un costume tout neuf pour leur procès. Les tribunaux ne prenaient jamais en considération la tenue des inculpés. Ils auraient pu comparaître dans des sacs à pommes de terre, les juges n'en avaient rien à faire. La seule chose qui comptait était la couleur de leur peau et les chefs d'accusation.

Ain't no such thing as communist baseball team!

Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique of pioneering (actually somewhat different in the two countries), the turbulence of gold rushes, the brutality of relaxed restraint, the boredoms of the backblocks, the feeling of making life anew. There may be more similarities between the history of Australia and America than for the moment Australians can understand.

government should be good at, relative to the private sector – namely, equality, efficiency, merit, fairness and justice.

Philolaus of Corinth (about 730 B.C.?) had supposedly enacted regulations ensuring that the farms at Thebes might remain the same number in perpetuity. The Corinthian Pheidon, "one of the most ancient of the lawgivers," purportedly argued that the population and the number of plots ought always to remain roughly equal. An even more shadowy figure, Phaleas the Chalcedonian, advanced the concept that all citizens of the polis ought to hold equal amounts of property.148

We must learn that when people devalue any one Life, they devalue all Life.

My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.