Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"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

"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

"Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that"

Ed Miliband, Politician

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

David Wilmot, Activist

"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

"Democracy is indispensable to socialism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"Any cook should be able to run the country"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"I used to be told, if I talked about my sexuality in any way, that we wouldn't have a tennis tour"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"I wanted to use sports for social change"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong"

Muhammad Ali, Athlete

"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm"

Bernard Williams, Philosopher

Bernard Williams

"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Marcus Garvey

"In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

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