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“It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.”

Used Names Easy Sides Brain Fool Equal Weapons Argument Easy Things Name Calling

Book:Elsie's Motherhood

Source: Elsie's Motherhood

“give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.”

Men Giving Opportunity White Color He Man Equal Racism Philosopher Equality Graves Manhood Cradle Statesmen Equal Opportunity

Book:Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart: (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart) Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass

Source: Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart: (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart) Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass

“Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?”

Thinking Men Should Doe Made God Freedom Race Lord Equal Racism Skins Equality African American Inferiors Considering Black Women Worms Equal Rights Hue Anti Racist

Author:Maria W. Stewart

“I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.”

Humans Opportunity Individual Rights Feminism Protect Equal Human Rights Feminist March Legislation Equal Opportunity Terminology Basic Human Rights

Author:Kaz Cooke

“Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”

Trying Seems Opportunity Position Equal Racism Dominance Equal Opportunity White Privilege

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.”

Want Country Play Powerful Roles Equal Males Developing Counterparts Developing Countries

Author:Samina Baig

“In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.”

Important Community Roles Equal Males

Author:Samina Baig

“Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.”

Looks Character Equal Competence

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good.”

Use Boys Magic Masters Reader Equal Originals Lovely Witch Haunting Enchanting Unruly

Author:Anne Ursu

“The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."”

Way Should Matter States Choices Issues Rights Gay Equal Court Protection Supreme Discrimination Supreme Court Gay Marriage Federalism Anti Gay All State Equal Protection

Author:Barack Obama

“If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.”

Ifs States Interest Moral Rights Equal Court Homosexuality Disapproval

Author:Barack Obama

“Economic equity is an enormous empowerment of women. Having jobs that provide income means that women can be a more effective force, a more equal force, in the political process. Women with income take themselves more seriously and they are taken more seriously.”

Mean Jobs Political Force Process Taken Economic Equal Empowerment Enormous Income Equity

Author:Betty Friedan

“I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.”

Thinking Way Long Stills Country Whole Term Pay Issues Successful Equal Host Long Way Workforce Equal Pay Long Way To Go Parity

Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.”

Equal Wiser

Author:Byron Katie

“In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.”

Firsts States Would Be United Class United States Car Equal Paint Satisfied Passengers Railroads

Author:Owen Wister

“Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.”

Way Mean Real Country Causes Black White Right Now One Day Equal Built Concerned Bases Being Real Black And White Real Friends Maybe One Day

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

“It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.”

Thinking Trying Wells May Facts Past Law Strange Equal Degrees Fundamentals Opening Our Thoughts Backwards Metaphysical Opening Up

Book:Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

“As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.”

Men World Moving Opportunity Equal Dating Rejected Embarrassed Consolation Humiliated Equal Opportunity

Book:Women Who Date Too Much

Source: Women Who Date Too Much

“We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.”

World States Shows Seems Turns Challenges Equal Relish

Author:Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman

“Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He has risen in the confirmation of all His claims. By it alone, but by it thoroughly, is He manifested as the very Son of God, who has come into the world to reconcile the world to Himself. It is the fundamental fact in the Christian's unwavering confidence in "all the words of this life.”

World Believe Made Facts Christian Christ Son Equal Claims Fundamentals This Life Easter Risen Reconcile Confirmation Unwavering He Has Risen

Author:B. B. Warfield

“Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.”

Equal Capacity Capacity To Love

Author:Lester Levenson

“There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.”

Wells Powerful Silence Skills Equal Chosen Most Powerful Equal Power

Author:Sharon Anthony Bower

“President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.”

States Political President Levels Economic Policy Equal Empowerment Locals Barriers President Obama Partnership Old Woman Removal

Author:Lael Brainard

“I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.”

Knows Way Long Made Stills Moments Fighting Opportunity Sex Pay Happened Feminism Equal Tables Made It Supposed To Be Ashamed 80s Long Way Equal Opportunity Equal Pay Equal Respect

Author:Keira Knightley

“In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.”

Should Writing Able Pay Opinion Class Equal Paper Grades Gum Equal Pay Sixth Grade

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.”

Should Mind Kind Memories Teaching Industry Genius Equal Should Have Patient Invention Originality Competent Correctness Erudition

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.”

Action Views Consciousness Virtue Equal Theatre Generous Action Love

Book:Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth

Source: Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth

“Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.”

Humans Security Equal Despair Weakness Affair Triumph Uncertainty Arrogance Folly Cowardice Anticipation Anticipate Presumption Miscarriage

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.”

Equal Resolution Combat Vehemence Vacillation

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.”

Knows Mind Sound Music Fire Lovers Equal Lows Wounds Warrior Temper Animated Bleeding

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

“Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?”

Ifs Reason Equal Assuming Equality Live By Monarchy Splendor

Book:Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)

Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)

“Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.”

Age Missing Fame Equal Deserve Desert Deserving Deserving It

Author:John Milton

“Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.”

Men Teacher Teaching Youth Equal Every Man Bows Ulysses

Book:The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!”

Ifs Feels Should Reason Would Be Spiritual Law Understanding Memories Hell Equal Conscious Madness Fancy Anarchy Our Memories Spiritual Beings

Author:John Milton

“Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.”

Knows Ignorance Equal Careful Profession Sheer No Confidence

Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Thinking Men Needs Done Remember Forget Pleasure Greater Equal Profit Careful Occasions One Man Be Careful Favour Offence Displeasure Slighted

Book:Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

“You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.”

People Actors Judging Equal Praise Criticize

Author:Laurence Fox

“It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.”

People Ifs Want Trying Play Seems Night Given Rooms Wonder Talent Hard Work Equal Harder Scales Work Harder Eric Your Room Kenny

Author:B. B. King

“The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Would Be Hate Equal I Hate Publicists

Author:Adam Carolla

“I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.”

Equal Pages Female Males Comic Representation Glowing Cartoonist Females And Males

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.”

Love Friendship Lovers Pure Equal Flames Burned

Author:Bion of Smyrna

“Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.”

Individual Equal Secure Outcomes Treatment

Author:Ted Malloch

“I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.”

Speak Understanding Bed Equal

Book:Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady

Source: Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare's Dark Lady

“I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.”

Thinking Needs Should Eye Christian Community Rights Gay Equal Smart Wings Prize Equal Rights Right Wing Need A Change Gay Community Eye On The Prize

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land.”

Feels May Mean Inspiration Land Youth Pride Equal Loyalty Canada Nationalism Flags Canada Funny

Book:Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers

Source: Words and Occasions: An Anthology of Speeches and Articles Selected from His Papers

“And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. I know this is in our reach because we are guided by a power larger than ourselves who creates us equal in His image.”

Knows Humor Political Opportunity Nations Justice Equal Solemn Pledge Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.”

Ideas States Government Turns Citizens Equal

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”

Men Government Form Justice Democracy Failing Mankind Example Equal Claims Notion Arise Forms Of Government Acknowledgement Sprung Sprung Up

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

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