#equality

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad. BIAS: predeliction for a particular dogma. For example, the feminist bias is that women are equal to men and the male chauvinist bias is that women are inferior. The unbiased view is that the truth lies somewhere in between. (an early comment on backlash, from "Glossary for the Eighties") ↗

— Ellen Willis

#politics #equality

...even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#poetic #poetry #prose #writers #equality

Remember, the change you want to see in the world, and in your school, begins with you. ↗

— Joseph Clementi

#equality #gay-rights #human-rights #change

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that. ↗

— Josephine Baker

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. ↗

— Lucy Parsons

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There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. ↗

— Stephen King

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The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”) ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#insanity #melancholy #mysticism #sanity #sardonic