#equality

I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you." "I don't think you can promise me that." She squeezed his bruised fingers. "But it makes things a bit more equal, to know that I can hurt you, too." His gaze fell to her lips. He said simply, without any trace of irony, "You are killing me. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#romance #equality

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#coordination #does #downside #equality #get

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#american flag #belief #carried #carry #cloth

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone ↗

— Mario Puzo

#equality

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ↗

— Linda Ellerbee

#alike #definition #differences #more #much

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#being #equal #equals #every #except

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#equal #equality #liberty #necessarily #security

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#america #asia #back #between #communities