“The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given.” IfsWorldFirstsWarStatesMotivationalChoicesGivenDifferencesMy OwnPovertyOne ThingTelevisionEqualDiseaseFairsAffairMaking A DifferenceReportsBetter PlaceFamine Author:Chrissie Wellington
“No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.” MenWantBodyAmericaGivenWishBlackExistenceConditionsTalentColorEqualAppearanceProofExhibitsBrethrenOwing Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.” WayI CanGivenCreativeEqualPicksFlowTasksImportanceEbb And FlowMetabolism Author:Sara Genn
“My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life. There is no act of my life on which I reflect with more pleasure. I have given to my country a judge equal to a Hole, Holt, or a Mansfield.” PeopleCountryStatesGivenPleasureUnitedUnited StatesJudgingEqualHoles Author:John Marshall
“In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.” IdeasDoneCoursesGivenWhiteRightsSpecialEqualAskingPrivilegeInstanceConsiderationEqual RightsWorkmenConveying Author:Samuel Gompers
“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.” IfsMenWorldHumansTwoPurposeMotivationChoicesGivenSexAbilityRolesEqualBasesSexualityTwo ThingsLayersLinkedProcreation Author:Gloria Feldt
“In the name of equal rights, women are being stripped of the protections of the family and given no place except the perverse competition of a sexual market in which increasingly shock, deviation, and aggressiveness command a premium . . .” ReligionNamesGivenRightsEqualCompetitionProtectionCommandShockEqual RightsPremiumDeviationAggressiveness Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.” SeemsGirlGivenHeavenShareHairBirthEqualCurly HairSmall Gifts Author:Phyllis McGinley
“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.” IfsMenWantYearsHumansHas BeensTwoReasonRealityTodayTogetherGivenHuman BeingsSpaceCitiesViolenceCitizensThousandProtectEqualYears AgoInventionRealmsConsiderationAggressiveBrotherhoodThousand YearsSymptomsBrotherhood Of Man Author:Robert Ardrey
“Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.” MenHumansArtMadeWarBodyCultureGivenShareModernActivityEqualAmbitionIntellectualFemaleGreedInternationalWorks Of ArtGapsExtinctionGovernancePassing AwayHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDelayed Author:Olive Schreiner
“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.” PeopleMadeDreamBigsOpportunityGivenNationsGrowsGoalChancePowerfulPovertyGrowing UpKnowingRichLandEqualLike MeTransformedEqual Opportunity Book:American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“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.” PeopleIfsWantTryingPlaySeemsNightGivenRoomsWonderTalentHard WorkEqualHarderScalesWork HarderEricYour RoomKenny Author:B. B. King
“As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.” GivenRightsEqualIslamicWomens RightsTestamentOld TestamentSaudi ArabiaWomen RightsIslamic Faith Author:Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
“Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.” MenMayGivenDoubtAtheismHolyConflictEqualAgreePositive AtheismBelieverGenuineViolentMidstVentureScopeFactionsTrue BelieverInfidelCannibalismImpeccableDoubtersInfamyAccusing Author:H. L. Mencken
“Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed to your own life flourishing, and you're being inconsistent if you don't expand it. So philosophy often works in trying to show us that there's an inner incoherence in our points of view. We're all committed to one thing when it comes to us and our own kind, but we're not willing to expand it and we're guilty of inconsistency.” IfsTryingLooksKindPhilosophyShowsGivenViewsRightsOne ThingWillingEqualArgumentCommittedPoint Of ViewGuiltyEqual RightsInconsistentFlourishingInconsistencyIncoherence Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.” GivingChildrenOpportunityGivenParentEqualDegreesRaisesCompareConsideringRaising ChildrenGreatest Gifts Author:Frank Pittman
“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.” IfsYearsWholeWould BeGivenPositionEqualSouthSouth AfricaManhoodGiven UpSuffrage Author:Jan Smuts
“Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.” IfsMenNeedsKindHandsLawUsedGivenRightsConditionsHe ManDevelopmentHonorEqualLaborHarmonyProfitProtectionFacultyWomens RightsSelect Author:Anna Brownell Jameson