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"You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases"
Harry S. Truman, President
"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"It is hard to interest those who have everything, in those who have nothing"
Helen Keller, Author
"There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"It's a struggle, but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness, whether or not she ever sleeps with women"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness, which I think can destroy us"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men"
Audre Lorde, Poet
"Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it"
Barack Obama, President
"I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out"
Barack Obama, President
"If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship"
Barack Obama, President
"The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them"
Barack Obama, President
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations"
Barack Obama, President
"I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy"
Barack Obama, President
"I'm a warrior for the middle class"
Barack Obama, President
"I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear"
Barack Obama, President
"I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator"
Barack Obama, President
"And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending "don't ask, don't tell," making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples"
Barack Obama, President
"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges"
Barack Obama, President
"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago"
Barack Obama, President
"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit"
Horace, Poet
"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people"
Walt Whitman, Poet
"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King; my republican feelings and principles forbid it; the simplicity of our system of government forbids it"
Andrew Jackson, President
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