#equality

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house ↗

— Audre Lorde

#inequality #power #feminism

Xav bounded out behind him. “Yeah, Phee equals You-She squared. I’ve been working on that one: like it? ↗

— Joss Stirling

#phee #phoenix #stealing-phoenix #xav #equality

Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as “a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church: Why Bother?) ↗

— Philip Yancey

#church #faith #family #equality

The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#gender-inequality #violence #family

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture. ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#culture #social-inequality #food

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy. ↗

— Janet Poppendieck

#democracy #inequality #food

No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny. ↗

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

#equality #fate #freedom #human-rights #humanity

I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree. ↗

— Karl Popper

#freedom #socialism #beauty

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. ↗

— Carl Schurz

#responsibility #equality

When the gap between the rich and the poor is so huge that you can’t help pointing it out – that’s when you risk being labeled a pervert. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #inequality #perversion #funny