Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: justice freedom responsibility equality ownship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The equality of the capitalist and the laborer is the same as the equality of two fighters, when the hands of one are bound, while a gun is put into the hands of the other, and equal conditions are strictly observed for both in the fight. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: equality capitalism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential. —Charles Bergquist More about this quote Tags: potential meaning democracy labor work equality job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: justice law poverty equality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: perception equality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. —Louis D. Brandeis More about this quote Tags: democracy equality inequality USA wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person and learns from the other. I have a lot to learn from other people. —Eduardo Galeano More about this quote Tags: learning respect equality charity solidarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is suffering. One side always loves more. —Catherine Deneuve More about this quote Tags: love equality suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. —Italian proverb More about this quote Tags: death equality chess games use Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies. —Carolyn G. Heilbrun More about this quote Tags: relationships law equality marriage victory challenge debate policy trophies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: humanity presence relationship compassion equality darkness healer wounded similarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: equality opportunity incompetence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. —Lionel Trilling More about this quote Tags: poverty equality liberal progressives Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be. —Joan Rivers More about this quote Tags: equality fairness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All men are equal before fish. —Herbert Hoover More about this quote Tags: equality fish Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email