Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress"

Mary A. Ward

"Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles"

John Kasich, Politician

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources"

Jane Goodall, Scientist

"We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences"

Carre Otis, Model

"The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers"

Benjamin Banneker, Scientist

"People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true"

Mary McAleese, Statesman

"Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women"

Anna H. Shaw

"Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus"

Thomas Mellon, Businessman

"A women's greatest asset is her beauty"

Alex Comfort, Author

"People aren't born racist"

Edward Furlong, Actor

"One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation"

Janez Drnovsek, Statesman

"The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else"

Gideon Welles, Soldier

"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying"

Cool Papa Bell, Athlete

"It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us"

George H. White, Politician

"Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant"

Pim Fortuyn, Politician

"We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few"

Nestor Kirchner, Statesman

"Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict"

Elizabeth Wilson, Actress

"We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow"

Klement Gottwald, Politician

"If the Labour Party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong"

Shirley Williams, Politician

"I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money"

Jaclyn Smith, Actress

"It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way"

Glenn Close, Actress

"To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision"

Jane Campion, Director

"There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion"

Bill Pullman, Actor

"The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction?"

Fernando Wood, Politician

"For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman"

Ana Castillo, Novelist

"I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"And before our current legislature adjourns, we intend to become the first state of full and true choice by saying to every low and middle-income Hoosier family, if you think a non-government school is the right one for your child, you're as entitled to that option as any wealthy family; here's a voucher; go sign up"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years, and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college"

Chaka Fattah, Politician

"What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way"

Mary Austin, Writer

"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"The press seems to love pitting women against each other"

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress

"What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself"

Norma Shearer, Actress

"I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out"

Jessica Alba, Actress

"I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake"

Jim Nussle, Politician

"Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left"

Chris Cooper, Actor

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