#um

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. ↗

— Malcolm X

#humanity #integration #interfaith-marriage #intermarriage #interracial-marriage

It seems only fair," Matthew continued. "A bit of karma, if you will." He twirled the stake again. "Shall we see how long you scream?" "Are you ever going to shut up?" I snapped, fear and irritation filling me in equal measures. "This isn't your monologue, Hamlet. It's the battle scene, in case you've forgotten." His eyes narrowed so fast they nearly sparked. They were the color of honey on fire. One of the others growled like an animal, low in his throat. It made all the hairs on my arms stand straight up. I was going to die for making fun of Shakespeare. My English Lit professor would be so proud. ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#shakespeare #equality

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#equality

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad. ↗

— James Dashner

#good #humor #equality

Amelie said, “I won’t be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals.” She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. “Now defend what is ours, my partner.” He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #funny #ghost-town #humor #michael-glass

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#equality

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#humanity #skin #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

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#equality

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#politics #equality