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"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged"
Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist
"I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much"
Celeste Holm, Actress
"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing"
Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer
"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament"
Florynce R. Kennedy, Lawyer
"It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality"
Zachary Quinto, Actor
"The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us"
Edmund Leach, Scientist
"The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants"
Herman Gorter, Poet
"Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?"
Paul Ryan, Politician
"Australia has an increasingly multicultural society"
Julie Bishop, Politician
"I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion"
Harry Oppenheimer, Businessman
"Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual"
Patrick Buchanan, Politician
"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean"
Philip Glass, Composer
"There are not many roles where women are really active"
Kathleen Quinlan, Actress
"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there"
Maureen Reagan, Celebrity
"No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman"
Israel Zangwill, Novelist
"Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs"
Ruben Hinojosa, Politician
"After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm"
Ernest Lehman, Screenwriter
"I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself"
Michael Richards, Actor
"I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority"
Susie Bright, Writer
"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that"
Oscar Peterson, Musician
"As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food"
Herman Gorter, Poet
"Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens"
John Marshall Harlan, Judge
"It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression, but an attempt - in my opinion, an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black"
Harry Oppenheimer, Businessman
"The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others"
John Chrysostom, Clergyman
"Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor"
John Bates Clark, Economist
"Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade, in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938"
Bill Pascrell, Politician
"We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants"
Bob Inglis, Politician
"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white"
Constance Baker Motley, Activist
"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both"
Constance Baker Motley, Activist
"Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up"
David Duchovny, Actor
"I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both"
Patricia Schroeder, Leader
"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it"
Frances Wright, Writer
"In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true"
Rick Mercer, Comedian
"At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people"
William John Wills, Scientist
"I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated"
Zendaya, Actress
"It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people"
Ben Linder, Engineer
"White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there"
Ma Rainey, Musician
"We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination"
Olympia Snowe, Politician
"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind"
Mary Ritter Beard, Historian
"One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard to get and just aren't available for regular people like you and I"
Matthew Lesko, Entertainer
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