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"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality"
Andrew Jackson, President
"I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood"
Denzel Washington, Actor
"You may try, but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl"
George Eliot, Author
"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment"
George Eliot, Author
"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow"
William Faulkner, Novelist
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly, it means danger, revolution, anarchy"
Henry Miller, Writer
"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique!"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men"
Alice Walker, Author
"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience"
Alice Walker, Author
"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is, the more us she is, and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people"
Alice Walker, Author
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
"As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto'"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"There are those who say to you - We are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy, and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"Many interviewers, when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody, you'd mention it.'"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity"
Desmond Tutu, Leader
"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor"
Grover Cleveland, President
"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages"
C. Wright Mills, Sociologist
"Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich"
Evita Peron, Statesman
"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation"
Evita Peron, Statesman
"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt"
James Madison, President
"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all"
Anais Nin, Author
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