That bar also delineated the realm of sweat and hourly wage, the working world that college was educating me to leave. Rewards in that realm were few. No one congratulated you for clocking out. Your salary was spare. The Legion served as recompense. So the physical comforts you bouth there—hot boudain sausage and cold beer—had value. You attended the place, by which I mean you not only went there but gave it attention your job didn’t deserve. Pool got shot not as metaphor for some corporate battle, but as itself alone. And the spiritual comforts-friendship, for instance—couldn’t be confused with payback for something you’d accomplished, for in the Legion everybody punched the same clock, drew the same wage, won the same prize.
Mary KarrTags: equality
I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.
Peter CameronI'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
Josephine BakerTags: equality
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
Ayn RandHe - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.
George CarlinTags: equality god religion feminism feminist men-and-women george-carlin
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double- or triple- or multiply natured, and largely mysterious even to ourselves; and furthermore that what we are is only part of us, because identity, unlike "identity", must include what we do. And I think that to find oneself and every aspect of this complexity reduced in the public mind to one property that apparently subsumes all the rest ("gay", "black", "Muslim", whatever) is to be the victim of a piece of extraordinary intellectual vulgarity.
Philip PullmanTags: wisdom equality identity
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
Tags: love equality relationships affection
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...
Rai ArenTags: life kindness equality compassion animal-rights life-affirming specieism
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
[To the Women of India (Young India, Oct. 4, 1930)]
Tags: inspirational strength empowerment equality gender men women gandhi feminist
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