- "The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just." - Martin Luther King Jr.
- "Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home?" - Harper Lee
- "Isn’t it ironic, how we kill flowers because we think that they are beautiful." - Unknown
- "Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength." — G.D Anderson
- "You may not agree with a woman, but to criticize her appearance — as opposed to her ideas or actions — isn’t doing anyone any favors, least of all you. Insulting a woman’s looks when they have nothing to do with the issue at hand implies a lack of comprehension on your part, an inability to engage in high-level thinking. You may think she’s ugly, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot." — Hillary Clinton
- "Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black women. White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings." — Michelle Haimoff
- "If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness." — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner
- “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” - Pablo Neruda
- “Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.” ― Erin Gruwell
- “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” - Coco Chanel
- “Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?” ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995
- “I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.” ― Malcolm X
- "Vi ontem um bicho/ Na imundície do pátio/ Catando comida entre os detritos/ Quando achava alguma coisa/ Não examinava nem cheirava/ Engolia com voracidade/ O bicho não era um cão/ Não era um gato/ Não era um rato/ O bicho, meu Deus, era um homem”. - Manuel Bandeira
- "They say he knows most everything worth knowing but has stayed close to home just in case that changes." - Humans of India
- "- Está enganado. Aqui estão as lembranças de centenas de pessoas, suas vidas, seus sentimentos, suas ilusões, sua ausência, os sonhos que nunca conseguiram realizar, as decepções, e os amores não correspondidos que envenenaram suas vidas... Tudo isso está aqui, preso para sempre."
- "We're all gonna die. We don't get much say in how or when. But we do get to decide how we're gonna live. So do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More compassionate? Decide." - Grey's Anatomy
- "A desigualdade entre dois sexos é um conceito inadmissível para a consciência moderna". - Marie d’Agoult, escritora francesa do século XIX.
- “O homem mais oprimido pode oprimir um ser, que é a sua mulher. Ela é a proletária do próprio proletário”. - Flora Tristan
- "95. As a child, I prayed every night. It felt important. Mature. Powerful. I wish someone had told me that it was me, that I was the powerful one. Imagine it: fleets of six-year-olds believing that strongly in themselves." - Sierra DeMulder
- "Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women." - Unknown
- "God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." - Fight Club
- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." — Albert Einstein
- "Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings that puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly inside." — Sigmund Freud
- "On fire, isn’t it funny how faggots and God can look the same sometimes? Keep in mind Jesus had two dads and turned out just fine." - Elliot Darrow, on his poem "God is Gay"
- "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." - Nelson Mandela
- "I asked 5 questions in biology today and all of them started with "sorry"." - a poem about the sexist culture
- "It is your responsibility not to get pregnant and your responsibility alone. However, if you do get pregnant, you cannot get an abortion because that’s just being selfish." - Things Society Will Try To Teach My 16-year-old Daughter
- “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- "For a boy, it is the lowest degradation to get called a girl. For a girl, it is the lowest degradation to get called a girl." - — 'Most Female Killers use Poison,' theappleppielifestyle
- “If you let yourself be overcome with sorrow, then you will drown in it.” — Solomon Northup - 12 Years a Slave
- “Along the way we have even lost the right to call ourselves Americans, although the Haitians and the Cubans appeared in history as new people a century befire the Mayflower pilgrims settled on the Plymouth coast. For the world today, America is just the United States; the region we inhabit is a sub-America, a second-class America of nebulous identity.” ― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- “The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.” ― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
- “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf
- “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” ― Gloria Steinem
- I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.” ― Rebecca West
- “Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?” ― Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
- “The violence we teach our sons in teaching them to Be Men is the same that keeps us up at night worrying about our daughters.”
- "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous." - George Orwell, 1984
- "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
- "I will iron your sheets when you iron out the inequities in your labor laws."
- "Uma fixação cultural na magreza feminina não é uma obsessão com a beleza feminina mas uma obsessão com a obediência feminina."
- "Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic."
- "“What the war did to dreamers.” ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See"
- "I learned that people can easily forget that others are human." - Philip Zimbardo (American psychologist)
- "Please disabuse yourself of the notion that my purpose on Earth is to tuck in ignorance at night." - Jesse Williams
jul 19 2013 ∞
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