Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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Jason Statham, Actor

"The test of civilization is its estimate of women"

George William Curtis, Author

"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education, there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed class of society, are the same in all countries"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"To understand how any society functions, you must understand the relationship between the men and the women"

Angela Davis, Activist

"I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work"

Angela Davis, Activist

"In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina"

Raquel Welch, Actress

"People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races, ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society"

Michael Harrington, Writer

"Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"

Taslima Nasrin, Writer

"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black"

Shirley Chisholm, Politician

"We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege"

Sean Connery, Actor

"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known"

Michael Harrington, Writer

"Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women"

Emily Carr, Artist

"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red; it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, 'tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Kate Millett, Activist

"If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you"

Bernard Malamud, Novelist

"Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning"

Kate Millett, Activist

"I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab"

George Galloway, Politician

"Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way"

Lena Horne, Actress

"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

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