“We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsYearsHardFiveEqualMen And WomenYears AgoPartnersFive YearsFortyHepburnTracy Author:Betty Friedan
“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
“The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.” MenYearsSaidKnowingEqualHundredYears AgoEqualityReally Mean Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” MenYearsFatherNationsPresidentChangeFreedomLibertyFourEqualYears AgoIndependenceSlaveSevenEqualityCivil WarScorePatrioticDedicatedContinentsPropositionsSeven Years4th Of JulyOur FatherJulyAmerican Civil WarIndependence DayAmerican PresidentAmerican PatrioticUs PresidentGreat PatrioticBeing EqualGreat PresidentsGettysburgJuly 4th 1776Equality Of PeopleEquality For AllHappy Independence Day Usa4th Of July InspirationalAmerican SlaverySlavery In AmericaLiberty And EqualityEquality Of ManFourth Of July Inspirational4th Of July WishesUs Independence DayUs Civil WarFunny 4th Of JulyGettysburg Address Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.” ThinkingWayYearsWellsPayAliveEqualYears AgoAustraliaFortySexismOptimistEqual Pay Author:Jacki Weaver
“A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.” YearsStarsFiveMinutesFineThousandEqualYears AgoInfiniteWingsGiantsSandFortyThousand YearsFive MinutesImpermanence Book:Pale fire Source: Pale fire
“Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.” YearsMadeValuesFightingCoursesWinningResultsDealsMoralFiveCenturyKingsBattleEqualHundredYears AgoConstantNobleMonstersFormulasAncestorMathematicianSuperiorityHypothesisMoral SuperiorityI Always Win Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.” MenYearsSelfGovernmentRunningTogetherReligiousPrinciplesEqualYears AgoOppositesSacredDespiseCan NotDeclarationEightyDeclaringSelf-government Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln