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Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

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Clive BarkerBooks of Blood: Volumes One to Three

Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many ti...

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Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a...

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I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us...

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I added, that whoever the woman was that had an estate, and would give it up to be the slave of a gr...

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Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a chil...

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We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, ...

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What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even d...

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What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren...

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Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

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[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is ru...

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported...

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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But...

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When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won'...

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Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have h...

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Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Sym...

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His own exclamation: “Women should be free—as free as we are,” struck to the root of a problem that ...

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The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance...

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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...

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Equality today means "sameness" rather than "oneness".

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to o...

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Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own leve...

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In vain will the world seek for equality until it has seen all men through the eyes of faith. Faith ...

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Fulton J. SheenRemade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose Through Spiritual Transformation

HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular ...

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Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck thi...

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I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upo...

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The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it w...

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues lik...

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But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emph...

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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, h...

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There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations ...

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My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan...

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There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

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Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to ...

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The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terri...

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H. G. WellsThe Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be r...

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Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed ...

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...

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It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; ...

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You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.

As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most import...

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We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people ar...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to ...

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Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certa...

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Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch...

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We ought to be free to meet and mingle, --to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration...

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Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother ...

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It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It...

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I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear word...

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I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, ...

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The only opinion I have is that I could never look someone in the eye and tell them that they didn’t...

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human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal fre...

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Herbert SpencerThe Right To Ignore The State

The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things...

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Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to ...

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Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

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Howard ZinnA People's History of the United States

In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody...

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Howard ZinnA People's History of the United States

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a ...

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...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

...[W]e must admit that... law must be valid, not merely for men, but for all rational creatures gen...

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Immanuel KantFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with s...

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Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur...

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Isaiah BerlinThe Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exe...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

The substance of what I have to say to the disadvantage of the theory and practice of universal suff...

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I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your oute...

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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

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Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine,"...

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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality

All men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing ...

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Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal...

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Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone h...

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I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosex...

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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psycho...

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It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level...

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Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie...

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It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only...

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Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...

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John LockeSecond Treatise of Government

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its norm...

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That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal ...

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It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

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All men are born free: just not for long.

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those...

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Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies eq...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion