Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that"

Kimi Raikkonen, Celebrity

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?"

Sojourner Truth, Activist

Sojourner Truth

"I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain"

Mercedes Ruehl, Actress

Mercedes Ruehl

"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans"

Bob Geldof, Actor

Bob Geldof

"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about nor trusts them with serious matters"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard"

Florence Kelley, Activist

"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided"

Charles Curtis, Vice President

"The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

Steve Guttenberg

"It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity"

Irving Kristol, Editor

"I'm sorry, I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me"

Vincent Gallo, Actor

"She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated"

W. L. George, Writer

"Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not"

William Hall, Soldier

"Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Democratic socialists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would have us believe that Big Government, funded by extremely high taxes - in countries like France - can create fair and just societies with widespread prosperity, little, if any, poverty, and a happy and contended population"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"We've been conditioned to see a video of white people in MAGA hats standing in front of a Native American and assume that the white people are racists"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"The United States has been turned into a mindless true-false test instead of the complex essay exam it should be. You are either for open borders or you are racist and anti-immigration. It just doesn't work that way"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Democracy is indispensable to socialism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"Any cook should be able to run the country"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

"When anything goes, it's women who lose"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

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