Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"Hence, within the space of two generations, there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!"

Ernestine Rose, Activist

"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American"

Irwin Shaw, Novelist

"At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, there's the deaf actress"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge"

Julian Bond, Activist

"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites"

William Weld, Politician

"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever"

Halle Berry, Actress

"We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference"

Robert Reich, Economist

"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using"

Marlee Matlin, Actress

"In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today"

Jinato Hu

"On the one hand, we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it, and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments, and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together"

Bob Riley, Politician

"My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences"

Paul Martin, Politician

"I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance"

Geena Davis, Actress

"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude"

Steven Biko, Activist

"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens or ethnic or sectarian discrimination"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled"

Charlize Theron, Actress

"I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind, and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism"

Judy Chicago, Artist

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