Society, Justice & Peace: Equality Quotes

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"Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites?"

John Prescott, Politician

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled"

Elizabeth Blackwell, Scientist

"I think all industries are sexist in nature, and I don't think the film industry is any different"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place"

Ignazio Silone, Author

"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors"

Thaddeus Stevens, Politician

Thaddeus Stevens

"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints"

Naomi Wolf, Author

"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

Eddie Bernice Johnson

"When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen"

Pauline Frederick, Actress

"The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist"

E. Franklin Frazier, Sociologist

"The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes"

Bella Abzug, Lawyer

"The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof"

Anzia Yezierska, Novelist

"It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society"

Tabare Vazquez, Statesman

"New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from"

Roselyn Sanchez, Model

"A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far"

Fannie Hurst, Writer

"I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress"

Wen Ho Lee, Scientist

"It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious"

Carole King, Musician

"Homophobia is gay"

Frank Iero, Musician

Frank Iero

"The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source"

Lucretia Mott, Activist

"Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men"

Steve Israel, Politician

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present"

Franz Boas, Scientist

Franz Boas

"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

Joyce Brothers

"We're half the people; we should be half the Congress"

Jeanette Rankin, Politician

"No man is so great as mankind"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Liberal-socialist women generalize about women as if they are some sort of monolithic voting block of disenfranchised, victimized citizens"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop only trade-union consciousness"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

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