#equality

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell." (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938) ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#double-standards #empowerment #inequality #prison #women

If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#equality

All other things being equal, the simpliest solution is the best. ↗

— Occam's Razzor

#equality

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#flowery #give #hunger #inequality #lectures

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#account #beyond #differently #equally #first

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#better #between #cause #economic #economic system

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#cause #devoted #equality #family #human

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ↗

— Franz Boas

#emotionally #energetic #imaginative #intelligent #mankind

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#before #equally #foolish #god #wise

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#ago #during #equality #forty-one #ideal