All Quotes By Tag: Equality

“But it seems logical… a man and a woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally. …. I can’t always be Lois Lane,” I insisted. “ I want to be Superman, too.”

“I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E.M. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, John Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjold… These are not invisible men. Poor Bruce. Poor frightened Bruce. Once upon a time you wanted to be a soldier.Bruce, did you know that an openly gay Englishman was as responsible as any man for winning the Second World War? His name was Alan Turing and he cracked the Germans’ Enigma code so the Allies knew in advance what the Nazis were going to do — and when the war was over he committed suicide he was so hounded for being gay. Why don’t they teach any of this in the schools? If they did, maybe he wouldn’t have killed himself and maybe you wouldn’t be so terrified of who you are. The only way we’ll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn’t just sexual. It’s all there—all through history we’ve been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what’s in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organize ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we’re doomed. That’s how I want to be defined: as one of the men who fought the war.”

“When you begin with the premise “I treat everyone equally,” you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don’t, or can’t, or shouldn’t. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses.”

“In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not “just like everyone else.” To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community.”

“Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.”

“Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.”

“And you can’t have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon…at lease some of the time”

“Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers but that males are more able to realize the predator role. In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.”

“Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.”

“A woman should be highly qualified and intelligent. Well, Most of the girls own a husband at the earlier age of their life and take care of husbands and house.”

“Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.”

“God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.”

“Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.”

“We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally.”

“We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth.”