Equal Quote by Deborah Tannen Download Open image “Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.” — Deborah Tannen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Equal Equal treatment Equality Ifs People Treatment
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“A woman will be inclined to repeat a request that doesn't get a response because she is convinced that her husband would do what… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Like most men, my father is interested in action. And this is why he disappoints my mother when she tells him she doesn't feel… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“...You're so real. That's why we love you." ... Her friend's response reflected the reciprocity of showing vulnerability. It is a gift not only… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share
Communication is a continualbalancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacyand independence. To survivein the world, we have to act in concert with others,… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“One reason it's so difficult to decide what to say became immediately clear: comments and questions that some appreciated were not appreciated by others.” — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
For many, the call to be a Christian can seem demanding, even overwhelming. But we need not be afraid or feel inadequate. The Savior has promised that He will make us equal to His work. 'Follow me,' He said, 'and I will make you fishers of men.' As we follow Him, He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace,… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
