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“The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.”

Men Winning Ability Effort Equal Rewards Assumption Denied Daydreaming Folklore

Book:And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

Source: And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

“Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.”

Ifs Feels Equal Equality Assumption Unconscious

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.”

“Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

Men Given Animal Democracy Groups Theory Equal Assumption Mathematician Maximum Peasants Wisest Wisest Man Additives

Book:Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights movement in the 60s here, but when I think of the Islamic feminist movement, I think of a lot of men who are very much standing with the women. It really feels like in equal numbers. Women are catching up in the field because we were not given access to knowledge and encouraged into these studies and so these men are helping us and empowering us. They are men of conscience who are fed up with this assumption that they're entitled.”

Thinking Men Helping Study Equal Conscience Western Feminist Assumption Islamic Empowering Fed Up Feminist Movement

Author:Asra Nomani

“It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.”

Source: Shibumi: A Novel