"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."

Equality, Americans, Exaggeration

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"In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Equality, Relationship, Consent, Work

"All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Equality, Gender, Competition, Ego

"Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Equality, Religion, Rights, Civil

"How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?"

Christina Engela, South African Author

Equality, Religion, Persecution, Humanity

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Equality, Truth, Power, Regret, Inspirational

"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Equality, Truth, People, Diversity, Judgment

"Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Equality, History, Diversity, Education, Inclusion

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Equality, Justice, Man, Mercy

"They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Equality, Freedom, Peace, Justice

"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Equality, Freedom, Justice, Oppression

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"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen."

Family, Mom, Trying

"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."

Equality, Americans, Exaggeration

"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"

Emotional, Feelings, Guilt, Mothers

"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers."

Woman, Women, Choices, Confidence, Mothers

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

Being, Children, Fact, Nothing

"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers."

Quality, Hatred, Ideology, Promises

"America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."

Trust, America, Country, Democracy

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"Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument."

"How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?"

"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

"Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."

Explore more quotes by Arianna Huffington

"Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen."

"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."

"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"

"The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers."

"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers."

"America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."

"Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one."

"But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid."

"There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear."