#rights

Perhaps you'll apprentice to a healer when you're older," Grete suggested. "I'd say you have the gift for it." Hen reddened, then seemed suddenly fascinated with a speck on her shoe. "Be nice to have a gift for something," she said after a moment. "But they don't let girls apprentice, now, do they?" Grete harrumphed. "A bunch of fools, the lot who came up with that system. You lose half the world's brainpower that way. ↗

— Frances O'Roark Dowell

#women-s-liberation #women-s-rights #women-s-strength #inspirational

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#human-rights #humanity #patriotism #simplicity #life

Poor animals, how jealously they guard their bodies, for to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself. ↗

— T. Casey Brennan

#vegan #veganism #life

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. ↗

— Joe Biden

#politics #life

We come to a corner where there are a few people protesting the festivities. I don't understand this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. ↗

— David Levithan

#lgbt-rights #experience

Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies while they wage wars and kill other people's babies. ↗

— Sonya Renee Taylor

#men #politics #rapists #rights #war

You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It's that simple. Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out or else it will be crushed by the tyranny of wickedness. ↗

— Bernard Schaffer

#gay-marriage #human-rights #supreme-court #marriage

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gender-roles #suffrage #womens-rights #men

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . . ↗

— Lin Pardey

#women-s-liberation #women-s-strength #womens-rights #men

It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#gay #gay-rights #equality