Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them?"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and, with malice toward none and charity for all, go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"Patriotism is not the exclusive property of any one group. It belongs to all Americans who love and cherish this country"

Fred Korematsu, Celebrity

"Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism"

Erich Honecker, Politician

"There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability"

Rachel Hunter, Model

"Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women"

Nancy Astor, Politician

"The Russian Revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want"

Famke Janssen, Actress

"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable"

Benjamin Spock, Scientist

"To recommend that women become identical to men would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: In both, the whole point is choice"

Carolyn Heilbrun, Writer

"Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S"

Peter Camejo, Businessman

"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food"

Sandra Oh, Actress

"Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave"

James Connolly, Politician

"I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"I want, in this school, that one sex shall have equal advantage with the other, and I want particularly that females shall have open to them every employment suitable to their sex"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality"

Naomi Wolf, Author

"By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes"

Oswald Spengler, Philosopher

"I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer"

William Henry Harrison, President

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan"

Mary Daly, Theologian

"No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty"

Jon Corzine, Politician

"The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us, and helps to create jobs and economic security"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them"

William Cobbett, Politician

"We will never accept a status quo where your race or your zip code determines your health, safety, or opportunity"

Jacob Frey, Politician

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