Diversity Quotes - Page 18

• A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

  Abba Eban

  Writing, Justice, Culture

  Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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• Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Lying, School

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• The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Class, Justice, Analysis

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Fate, Blessing

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• Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.

  Ralph Ellison

  Struggle, Reality, Mad

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• What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Justice

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• We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Justice, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.545, Рипол Классик

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• Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rights, Justice, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.61, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Keys, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Justice, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.8, Harvard University Press

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• God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Kings, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

  Susan Faludi

  America, Years, Justice

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Justice

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

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• If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

  Frantz Fanon

  Bridges, Justice, Doe

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Mother, Writing

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

  Frances Farenthold

  Running, Men, Justice

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• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

  Charles Ferguson

  People, Justice, Addiction

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• It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

  Charles Ferguson

  Fashion, Justice, Trophies

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• Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.

  Charles Ferguson

  Justice, Community, Routine

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• We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Children, School, Organization

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• Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Mean, Fighting, Justice

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• Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Justice, Culture

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

  Anatole France

  Men, Justice, Prejudice

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.89, Anatole France

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• They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

  Barney Frank

  School, Kids, Two

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