#ali

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#equality #freedom #give #justice #man

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#reading #why-read #equality

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 Aren

#compassion #equality #kindness #life #life-affirming

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#running #running-away #equality

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#equality

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad. ↗

— James Dashner

#good #humor #equality

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#privilege #rights #equality

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#temporary #washing #equality

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? ↗

— Confucius

#youth #equality

Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner.” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass