#ali

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#journalism #media #media

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#india #jinnah #nationality #subcontinent #india

It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#personal-essay #story #equality

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#equality

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#jinnah #nationality #pakistan #partion #united

We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell? ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#equality

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#equality

La femme ne peut être émancipée que lorsqu'elle prend part dans une grande mesure sociale à la production et n'est plus réclamée par le travail domestique que dans une mesure insignifiante. ↗

— Engels Friedrich

#gender-equality #labour #production #equality

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#journalism #mainstream-media #newspapers #journalist

We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#patriarchy #white-supremacy #media