Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Quotes

 The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men:  

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Adam Rita - Quotes

 If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? 

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Jane Addams - Quotes

 The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. 

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Voltaire - Quotes

 It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence. 

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Quotes

 An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which is properly trained suffers patiently even whip and spur: so savage man will not bend his neck to the yoke to which civilised man submits without a murmur, but prefers the most turbulent state of liberty to the most peaceful slavery. We cannot therefore, from the servility of nations already enslaved, judge of the natural disposition of mankind for or against slavery; we should go by the prodigious efforts of every free people to save itself from oppression. I know that the former are for ever holding forth in praise of the tranquillity they enjoy in their chains, and that they call a state of wretched servitude a state of peace: miserrimam servitutem pacem appellant. But when I observe the latter sacrificing pleasure, peace, wealth, power and life itself to the preservation of that one treasure, which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see free-born animals dash their brains out against the bars of their cage, from an innate impatience of captivity; when I behold numbers of naked savages, that despise European pleasures, braving hunger, fire, the sword and death, to preserve nothing but their independence, I feel that it is not for slaves to argue about liberty. 

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Aristotle - Quotes

 The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. 

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Paulo Freire - Quotes

 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.  

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Alexander McCall Smith - Quotes

 Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo, crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Probably not. 

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Audre Lorde - Quotes

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

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Jared Diamond - Quotes

 Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali) 

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Jodi Picoult - Quotes

 You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. 

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