“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.” ShouldReasonEnoughHumanityEvolutionProveEqualIntellectualCapacityUniversalFirmHeritageReservesAnticipateEqual Power Book:Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
“This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.” MenDoeSaidActionLawCausesPlansEffectsDesignPositionEqualConsciousUniversalEternityHarmonyOriginalsKarmaUnconsciousAdjustmentResumes Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.” HumansLightAgeJusticeDarkHuman BeingsLibertyMoralChristianityGreaterSocietyCivilizationEqualTestsUniversalSlaveGoddessToysSavagesSentimentalDark Ages Author:George William Curtis
“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.” IfsWould BeStrangeEqualAll ThingsUniversalMiraculous Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.” ChildrenHas BeensArtSchoolOpportunityParentAbilityWalksPayCollegeCostEqualTrainingCapacityUniversalInstitutionsKillingUniversityProfessionVocationThoroughWalks Of Life Author:Huey Long
“Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.” WantImportantReasonHomeCareHousePayHalfWifeChildhoodHusbandEqualUniversalEightStuckBlockReason WhyWorkplaceSeventiesAffordableEarly ChildhoodEqual PayEarly Childhood EducationDay Care Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.” MeanChildrenImportantEndsFactsNextOpportunitySocialEducationRolesGenerationsAchieveEqualSolutionsIdealsUniversalNotionCurrentsBrilliantInventionChiefsExplanationContradictionNext GenerationAbandonmentCorrectionsPublic EducationEqual OpportunityCompulsoryPostponement Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.” PeopleThinkingWorldRecordsEqualUniversalCommunicateBeing Equal Author:Patti Smith
“In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.” MenWorldGivingMayFormLawRealizingLossBusinessBreakDependsEqualUniversalDollarsCentsBalancedGood WillUnwiseBusiness WorldUniversal LawsFuture Business Author:Walter Russell
“Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.” DoneLawSufferingReligiousRightsEqualUniversalRemainsJewVicesProofCivil RightsRemarkableInherentAntidoteSectsInsolence Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.” HandsGovernmentSecretEqualDirectUniversalElectionPopulationOrgansWhips Author:Joseph Stalin
“What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.” MenHandsPayViolenceCenturyPolicyLimitsEqualUniversalPropertyAccessFirmAbortionVotingHealthcareMasculineOpposingContraceptionEqual Pay Author:Madeleine M. Kunin