“For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. Where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth.”
“Death is the great equalizer”
“But before we cue the brass section to blare The Stars and Stripes Forever, it might be worth taking another moment of melancholy silence to mourn the thwarted reconciliation with the mother country and what might have been. Anyone who accepts the patriots premise that all men are created equal must come to terms with the fact that the most obvious threat to equality in eighteenth-century North America was not taxation without representation but slavery. Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation. A return to the British fold in 1776 might have freed American slaves three decades sooner, which is what, a generation and a half? Was independence for some of us more valuable than freedom for all of us? As the former slave Frederick Douglass put it in an Independence Day speech in 1852, This is your Fourth of July, not mine.”
“Equality is humanity.”
“Be that kind of girl who smiles when you walk past other girls instead of casting a dirty look. Don t buy into the notion of female competition that society so heavily promotes.”
“It doesn t matter who you are. Everyone s fear is equal.”
“How far we claim to have come - accepting all men as created equal. Gender being the requisite qualifier, as women are not reviewed in the same fashion - their fashion hopefully better suited to the bedroom than the boardroom. And, you know, homosexuals not really being men, cannot be judged equivalent to their stiffer-wristed brethren. On religion, well, some Christians are willing to make room for a Jew or two in their inner circles. But Mecca-facing prayer must be met with flaming crosses. Close your eyes to the details, the big picture can still be viewed through rose-colored glass. But go any distance beyond the rhetoric, truth becomes a shadowed lens.”
“Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.”
“It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by speciesism . By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one s own species and against those of members of other species.”
“This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called A Better Life for All , which in turn became the ANC s campaign slogan.”
“We are not equal, we are two halves that make each other whole.”
“Equality is not sameness. We all are born different – we look different and we have different circumstances. But, we all are born out of the same universe – the matter that makes our bodies comes from this magnificent universe. I have been a science student but I never heard of black matter used for black bodies, white matter for white bodies, and brown matter for brown bodies and so on.”
“This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers.”
“It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.”
“I don t want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what s held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God s creations, we should be held in equal esteem.”
“But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t t pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.”
“The terms `Husband and `Wife are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status.”