I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights.

Desmond Tutu

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Topic

Equality Human rights

Speaker

Desmond Tutu

Medium

Interview TV program

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Anti-apartheid activist Clergyman Activist

From

South Africa Africa

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Citation

Tutu, Desmond. The Today Show, NBC, 9 Jan. 1985.

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Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Topic
Need for love Lack of love Love

Author

Margaret Atwood
Source
The Handmaid's Tale
Medium
Novel
Genre
Dystopian fiction
Language
English
Time
1985 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 18.

Another quote about Equality

I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Equality
Speaker
Abraham Lincoln
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio. 17 Sept. 1859, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 17, 1859." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.