"I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan"

-- Mary Daly

#Equality Quotes #Ku Klux Klan Quotes #Black Quotes

“With all the catastrophes that are going on, and all the hardships that are going on around the world, you don't do the world any service by walking around in pain and at war with yourself. You'd do a lot better good, a lot better service, if you find that thing within yourself that says ...move forward it's okay. It's are duty to see through it and work through it.”
“There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.”
“Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.”
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.”
“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”

Source : Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken
“You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'”

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