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"We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Most women are one man away from welfare"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism"
Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer
"All men are by nature born equally free and independent"
George Mason, Statesman
"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it"
George Mason, Statesman
"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man"
Golda Meir, Leader
"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race"
Booker T. Washington, Educator
"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him"
Booker T. Washington, Educator
"The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness"
Jesse Owens, Athlete
"The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other"
Princess Diana, Royalty
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim"
Betty Friedan, Activist
"We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!"
Betty Friedan, Activist
"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom"
Jim Hightower, Activist
"It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs"
Jim Hightower, Activist
"We become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams"
Jimmy Carter, President
"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you"
Jimmy Carter, President
"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... You are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world"
Jimmy Carter, President
"Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation"
Willie Mays, Athlete
"Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them"
Mel Gibson, Actor
"I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded"
Megan Fox, Actress
"For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred"
John W. Gardner, Educator
"Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair"
Paula Cole, Musician
"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion, which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness"
Erica Jong, Novelist
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat"
Rosa Luxemburg, Activist
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