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"Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"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
"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
"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
"I wanted to use sports for social change"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"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
"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
"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time"
Billie Jean King, Athlete
"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color"
Malcolm X, Activist
"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
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"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
"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
"Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm"
Bernard Williams, Philosopher
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"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
"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
"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws"
Andrew Jackson, President
"The battle for women's rights has been largely won"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
"The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool"
Max Cannon, Artist
"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
"Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
"All provisions of federal, state, or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield"
Earl Warren, Judge
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly"
Margaret Atwood, Novelist
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishment's hand. They make the racist secure in his racism"
Huey Newton, Activist
"We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore"
Antonio Banderas, Actor
"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people"
Martina Navratilova, Athlete
"Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone"
Martina Navratilova, Athlete
"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males; and all male bonding is based on it"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race, he will be advanced in life, regardless of his own merits or efforts"
Booker T. Washington, Educator
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women"
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive"
Betty Friedan, Activist
"Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves"
Betty Friedan, Activist
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