Equality, Fairness and Tolerance
Equality, fairness and tolerance
Were the cries from the scaffold
As the crowd jeered and called for blood.
They hung the three of them on the gibbet
For there was no room for such disgusting thoughts.
They had to pay the price.
Fairness – an absurd idea.
Equality – such madness.
Tolerance – not to be tolerated.
Left swaying in the breeze.
Opher 12.5.2018
Human nature seems to not want these qualities. They are murdered whenever they rear their heads.
It is quite sobering to look at the year when women were allowed the vote.
Here is a list. It’s a bit crude because there are instances where aboriginals were still denied voting rights.
It is quite shocking to see countries such as Switzerland not allowing females to vote until 1971!!
To think that some countries only gave women the right to vote in the last couple of decades!!
There is much that needs doing in order to gain equality throughout the world.
Well done New Zealand!! Shame upon so many countries!!
Women’s Rights
How long does it take to gain real equality?
Women have been treated badly in many cultures throughout the world and still are. In all Abrahamic religions women are treated as second-class citizens. In the UK they weren’t allowed to own property until 1870! Women were seen as the property of men. They had no rights.
Looking around the world one can see many instances of misogyny and repression of women. They are sometimes not allowed out of the home without a man. They are forced to wear burqas and hijabs. They are not allowed to drive. They are not allowed to work or own anything. They are segregated from men. Some are not able to access contraception or use it.
Equality looks a long way off.
In the UK the suffragettes started up in 1867 to fight for the right to vote. It wasn’t until they became violent that they finally achieved the vote in 1928. It wasn’t until 1956 that women teachers and civil servants gained equal pay with men. In 1968 women had to go on strike in the Ford Car factory in Dagenham to gain equal pay.
As late as 1970 women had to have a male guarantor in order to get a mortgage.
There is such a lot to fight for. Even in the West we are far from a situation of equality. That will only occur when half of parliament, business managers and those in top jobs are female.
In 2018 the DUP are stopping women of Northern Ireland from having the right to abortions.
No matter what legislation is brought in until we sort out a proper system of child care I do not think women will ever achieve true equality.
Until we have universal human rights and women are afforded equality in all areas there is a battle. It is a battle worth fighting!
Women are taking to the streets demanding equal rights. It is imperative that we men support them. The future is about equality. For too long women have been second-class citizens. They are not just bodies to be groped and abused.
These signs from Global Citizen say it all. Attitudes have to change!!
Evo Morales is the first indigenous President of Bolivia. He runs a left-wing government that believes in equality and education. He raised taxes on big companies in order to combat poverty and illiteracy.
Evo is an environmentalist who believes we have to put the planet before profit.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
Under him the economy flourished.
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
There are countries that send us garbage. There are countries that send us their outdated technology as their cooperation. With Fidel [Castro] it is totally different. Fidel is the first and the best one to stand for peace in the world denouncing the interventionist policies of the U.S.
In Iraq, [American administration] said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction endangering mankind. With this pretext, the U.S. intervened militarily, and all they did is take control over oil fields, and oil wells.
The way I see it, it’s impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity
For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.
Emmeline believed in equality and wanted the vote for women. She believed in justice so strongly that she was prepared for civil disobedience and even damage to property to force people to take notice. She was prepared to suffer and go to prison for her beliefs. She was a woman of great courage.
Women’s votes and equality for all races has been hard fought for. Even in England the battle is far from won. There are many uncivilised countries where women have no rights, religious intolerance rules and racism is extant. There is much work to be done.
Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Anna Quindlen
If something is right, it is right – even if the whole world is against it! Equality and tolerance are always right.
The first organised opposition by women to women’s suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women. Millicent Fawcett
Just as Female Genital Mutilation is inflicted on poor girls by their female relatives and female maimers and some women support compulsory wearing of burqas and segregation of women, there are many women who fight tooth and claw against equality. They are happy being second class citizens and instructed what to think and do by men. They are their world’s worst enemies.
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. Rutherford B. Hayes
Unless you have a free-thinking, educated population you cannot have democracy or freedom. Education is fundamental to equality and tolerance. An educated population questions what they are told and decides for themselves.
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women’s suffrage. W. E. B. Du Bois
Equality is equality. All people are equally important. Tolerance is essential for peace and freedom. Imposition is tyranny.
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity. John Boyle O’Reilly
There are always arrogant, opinionated bigots who feel superior to other people. These small-minded individuals need arguing with.
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production;[
It is a system that is opposed to the rampant greed of capitalism. This mantra of profit before all else, greed and to hell with everything, is what is creating inequality, environmental destruction, overpopulation and fuelling war. There’s a better way.
I like democracy and having a say in what is going on.
Socialism is based on the idea of equality.
It is associated with environmentalism, feminism and liberalism.
They are all things I am in agreement with.
I’ve been listening with interest to the arguments put forward at the Labour Conference and good ones they are too.
An end to austerity and the vicious attacks on the poor, disabled and public servants.
I want an educational system for everyone – not selection and a series of grammar schools for the wealthy while the rest get the slops.
The nationalisation of the Post Office. How on Earth does it make sense to have thousands of cars and vans running around the countryside delivering amazon parcels instead of one streamlined, joined up service? It’s a bunch of poorly paid people being exploited for profit. We have a national system that is efficient and streamlined it’s called the Post Office.
The Nationalisation of the Railways. I’m sick of hiked up prices for travel. A piecemeal set of companies all in it to cream off wealth for a bunch of rich owners. I want an efficient, joined up, safe, cheap service, development and a service that provides comfort and speed. It needs to be under public ownership.
The end of Trident. Trident is a hugely expensive red herring. It can never be used and is minuscule compared with the USA and Russia (and probably China too) It’s only reason is to give Britain a place at the top table. Well I could do without a place at the top table. The money could be spent on anti-terrorism, schools, hospitals and housing.
I want the greedy bankers and capitalists to pay more. I want a country with more equality and less greed.
I want the environment being respected and conserved. I don’t want fracking destroying our countryside and polluting the water.
I could go on. I can’t find much I disagree with.
I’m a socialist, a paid up Labour man. I believe in equality. I want capitalism curbed.
I want the Labour Party to unite and get behind the leader and get their message across. It’s time we started showing up the Tories for the bunch of greedy capitalists they are.
There is a better way – it’s the Labour way. I’m a SOCIALIST through and through.
If you wake up with one of the following symptoms you may well be dead!
If you have one or more of these symptoms you may well be dead!
What to do
Nothing.
You have no need to do anything ever again. Other people will do everything necessary.
Benefits
There are a number of benefits from this condition:
Downside
So beware if you wake up dead – you might not have packed in all that you could into your brief time here.