Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"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

Quentin Crisp

"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

Rosa Luxemburg

"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story"

James Baldwin, Educator

James Baldwin

"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian"

James Baldwin, Educator

James Baldwin

"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

William E. Gladstone

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

Branch Rickey

"With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens"

Fannie Lou Hamer, Activist

Fannie Lou Hamer

"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites"

John Powell, Composer

John Powell

"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man"

George Crook, Soldier

"Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference"

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer

"I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view"

John Howard, Statesman

"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

"Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

Bruce Springsteen

"A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House"

Chris Rock, Comedian

Chris Rock

"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family, they are looking for food"

Kanye West, Musician

Kanye West

"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap"

Eminem, Musician

Eminem

"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

Harold Wilson

"The welfare state is not just about social security, it is about investing in people and enabling them to realize their full potential"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

Jens Stoltenberg

"I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people, I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects"

Emma Lazarus, Poet

"The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women"

Alice Paul, Activist

"It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society"

Alice Paul, Activist

"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I"

Janis Joplin, Musician

Janis Joplin

"The more we can do to create a better society that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

Sanford I. Weill

"Property is theft"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Economist

"No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

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