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"I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste"
Guru Nanak, Philosopher
"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with"
Rose Schneiderman, Activist
"Men are actually the weaker sex"
George Weinberg, Psychologist
"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up"
Jessica Savitch, Journalist
"We're not inherently anything but human"
Robin Morgan, Activist
"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark"
Dick Gregory, Comedian
"Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society"
Judith Light, Actress
"I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex"
Lucy Stone, Activist
"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility"
Robert Welch, Writer
"I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged"
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician
"Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here"
George C. Wallace, Politician
"The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on"
Dorothy Day, Activist
"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village?"
Thabo Mbeki, Statesman
"I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening"
Zoe Saldana, Actor
"The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal"
Leonard Boswell, Politician
"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan"
Jacques Delors, Economist
"This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process"
Susan George, Activist
"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme"
William Graham Sumner, Businessman
"Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois"
Dick Durbin, Politician
"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice"
Salmon P. Chase, Politician
"The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts"
William Weld, Politician
"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages, could not do?"
Ernestine Rose, Activist
"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted"
Dorothy Height, Activist
"The walls are the publishers of the poor"
Eduardo Galeano, Journalist
"But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation"
Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist
"England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene"
Kevin Ayers, Composer
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers"
Emmeline Pankhurst, Activist
"Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?"
Tyra Banks, Model
"The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car"
Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist
"I can hear the roar of women's silence"
Thomas Sankara, Politician
"I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law"
Paul Martin, Politician
"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves"
Jupiter Hammon, Poet
"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters"
Garry Kasparov, Celebrity
"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it"
Judy Chicago, Artist
"I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian"
Betty Dodson, Educator
"Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College"
Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist
"The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites"
David Duke, Celebrity
"India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people"
Manmohan Singh, Statesman
"Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts"
Stephen F. Lynch, Politician
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other"
Mary Douglas, Scientist
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