Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality"

David Allan Coe, Musician

"Democracy for us tends to be, has to do with who shouts the loudest!"

Peter Hook, Musician

"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s, when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"I never though much about race"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations"

Jay-Z, Musician

"When I was I younger, I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now, this was in the late '70s"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't, isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts"

Peter Singer, Philosopher

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"As you know, in this country, Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent"

Alphonso Jackson, Public Servant

"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence"

Saul Williams, Musician

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America"

Bert Williams, Entertainer

"The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist"

Marion Berry, Politician

"People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers"

Howard Thurman, Educator

"Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal"

John Burns, Activist

"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"When a woman drinks, it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature"

Marguerite Duras, Novelist

"To them, the real United States is just flyover country"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Affirmative action works, but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place"

Harold Washington, Politician

"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women"

Gary Gygax, Inventor

"There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books"

Bess Truman, First Lady

"I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin"

Bess Truman, First Lady

"The only white man you can trust is a dead white man"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

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