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The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's e...

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Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breas...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequa...

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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different...

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. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, t...

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But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal....

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After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they...

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Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, bu...

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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...

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We should not take part in acting a lie any more than in telling a lie. Weshould not say that men ar...

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I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this eno...

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Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by th...

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It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: M...

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No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black ...

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We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, th...

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Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by so...

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Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

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Thomas PikettyCapital in the Twenty-First Century

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they...

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ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

he way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he ne...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but...

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There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. Y...

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The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless,...

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Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and sm...

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...

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I insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the w...

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W. E. B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folk: By W. E. B. Du Bois - Illustrated

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it...

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Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were ...

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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals...

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Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade o...

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Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability des...

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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are swor...

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Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bun...

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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...

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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...

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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person k...

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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived i...

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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

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But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l...

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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...

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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...

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In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they ...

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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

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While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...

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Alexander von HumboldtCosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe: Part One

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive tast...

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The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste...

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One has to understand that equality ends up by infiltrating the world of politics as it does everywh...

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The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upo...

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The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing th...

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Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain...

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Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peac...

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Dating in highschool was very different. Boys suddenly went up your shirt, girls were expected to gi...

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A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, t...

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Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Ma...

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There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What m...

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Little girls ought to be taught and brought up with boys, so that they might be always together. A w...

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MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grie...

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely...

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects...

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their d...

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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the...

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At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...

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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but va...

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...

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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy...

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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that inc...

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Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Moreover, I believe that part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, t...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are th...

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Bartolomé de las CasasA Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Significantly, in future feminist movement we will spend less time critiquing patriarchal marriage b...

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Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate...

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The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a w...

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Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with...

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Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

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With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive....

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Bell hooksBelonging: A Culture of Place

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go th...

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but...

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