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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"
John F. Kennedy, President
"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Four legs good, two legs bad"
George Orwell, Author
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
George Orwell, Author
"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong"
Muhammad Ali, Athlete
"Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up"
Muhammad Ali, Athlete
"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - There's the United States of America"
Barack Obama, President
"One of the great strengths of the United States is... We have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values"
Barack Obama, President
"This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many"
Barack Obama, President
"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
"The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread"
Anatole France, Novelist
"Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster"
George Eliot, Author
"A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger; else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe"
George Eliot, Author
"It is the American vice, the democratic disease, which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd"
Henry Miller, Writer
"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"What is Black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"Women hold up half the sky"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours"
Grover Cleveland, President
"I merged those two words, Black and feminist, because I was surrounded by Black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it"
Marilyn Monroe, Actress
"I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with"
Evita Peron, Statesman
"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go "
Evita Peron, Statesman
"The market came with the dawn of civilization, and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people, there is no contradiction with socialism"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
"I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"
Adam Smith, Economist
"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy"
Terence, Playwright
"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
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