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Commission for Racial Equality, UK - The CRE is a publicly funded, independent organisation that exists to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality.

Equal Opportunities Commission - Offers advice and guidance on sex discrimination and equal pay issues for England, Scotland and Wales.

Disability - on the agenda - Information of the New Deal for the Disabled initiative and disability rights. There is also a section on the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative which provides detailed guidelines for web authors on making their pages accessible to all.

Human Rights Unit - Responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates into UK law rights and freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, and for the UK's position under various Human Rights Treaties.

Equality Direct - Telephone advice service and website providing advice on equality legislation and good practice.

Race Equality Unit - Provides information on various aspects of Race Relations and refugee resettlement.

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Coxe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Equality Issues Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Equality Issues There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Equality Issues You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr Equality Issues Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Equality Issues Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Equality Issues In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Equality Issues It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Equality Issues For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Equality Issues Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Equality Issues Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Equality Issues Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine Equality Issues An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Equality Issues Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse tha "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Equality Issues What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Equality Issues "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Equality Issues After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Equality Issues Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Equality Issues I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Equality Issues Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Equality Issues Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Equality Issues You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Equality Issues
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