“I miss hugging these expectant mothers and being with them in person. But the coronavirus pandemic has only amplified what I always knew to be true: This country is failing when it comes to supporting birthing people, especially black women.”— LATHAM THOMAS, Cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan.com
“A new analysis finds that liberalizing zoning rules and building more won’t solve the urban affordability crisis, and could exacerbate it.”— Richard Florida, citylab.com
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”— Thurgood Marshall, biography.com
“You're bullshit. A bullshit puppet. I can see your strings. You've lost your way. All women have. Used to be easy to know a man-cult when you saw one. Before the lies that blinded us to the inequalities. The male wants desperately to be led by females. He wants Mama to be in charge. But we keep givi…”— Crystal Liu, Bebe Babbitt, Frances Conroy, imdb.com
“Dudes: If you consider yourself a feminist and an ally and if your heart goes out to all the women who have been abused in the workplace but don’t know what to do, be a pal and tell three women you work closely with how much you make.”— Mary H.K. Choi, twitter.com
“We shouldn’t just be looking to end poverty but to have bigger dreams too - my take on why Charlie & the Chocolate Factory should be on reading list of everyone who’s fighting injustice.”— Caroline Lucas, twitter.com
“I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.”— Stokely Carmichael, voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu
“To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“Everywhere the proletariat develops in step with the bourgeoisie. In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the proletariat grows in numbers.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“The capitalists soon had everything in their hands and nothing remained to the workers.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“That the mutual affection of the people concerned should be the one paramount reason for marriage, outweighing everything else, was and always had been absolutely unheard of in the practice of the ruling classes; that sort of thing only happened in romance – or among the oppressed classes, which did…”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“With the pairing family, therefore, the abduction and barter of women began—widespread symptoms, and nothing but that, of a new and much more profound change.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“Our deeply unequal society is not the result of a bunch of bad guys. We don't have a President Snow. Or, we do have a President Snow, but he's not a person. The thing that causes inequality isn't some corrupt politician, it's not a bunch of psychopathic CEOs. Inequality is caused by human nature, ps…”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Inequality is not the result of animosity, it is just the result of the status quo. It's complacence that causes it, not evil.”— Hank Green, youtube.com