Diversity Quotes - Page 20

• The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

  Che Guevara

  Fighting, Justice, Causes

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• We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.

  Nicolas Guillen

  Running, Color, Years

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• As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

  Lani Guinier

  Country, Talking, Issues

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• If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

  Janet Campbell Hale

  Men, Games, Play

  Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.58, UNM Press

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• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Justice, Democracy

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Justice, Social Justice

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• That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

  Learned Hand

  Religious, Eye, Winning

  "A Plea for the Open Mind and Free Discussion" (speech), Albany, N.Y., 24 Oct. 1952

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• It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Justice, Mind, Realization

  Lorraine Hansberry (1994). “The Collected Last Plays”, Vintage

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• My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

  Frances Harper

  Hands, Light, Justice

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Go Work In My Vineyard”

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• He who helps in the saving of others, saves himself as well.

  Hartmann von Aue

  Justice, Saving, Helping

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• It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

  William H. Hastie

  Past, Justice, Evil

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• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Heart, Land

  "The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

  Ben Hecht

  Justice, Safety, Mind

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• No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

  Lillian Hellman

  Equality, Earthquakes, Rights

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• For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

  Lillian Hellman

  Life, Freedom, Men

  Lillian Hellman (1944). “Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts”

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• In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

  Carter Heyward

  Love, God, Respect

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• If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.

  Carter Heyward

  Christian, Religious, Reality

  Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

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• Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Teaching, Justice

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street.

  Chester Himes

  Wall, Heart, Ambition

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• To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Justice, Soul, Upset

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

  Eva Hoffman

  Justice, Perception, Savages

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• It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

  Linda Hogan

  Attachment, Land, Justice

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• The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

  Paul Houston

  Kids, Justice, Income

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• The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

  Hu Shih

  Eye, Justice, Looks

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• Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Justice, Form

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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