Diversity Quotes - Page 24

• If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Justice, Wish, Pursue

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Enemy, Progress

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• Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Race, Rights

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Literature

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Daughter, Humor

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• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Tennis, Habit

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• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sweet, Cake, Justice

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.42, University of Toronto Press

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• We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

  Margaret Mead

  Doors, Justice, Steps

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Enlightenment, Way

  Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos (1984). “I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”, p.245, Verso

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• One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

  H. L. Mencken

  White, Justice, Suffering

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.271, Knopf

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• That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

  V. K. Krishna Menon

  Expression, Justice, Neutrality

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• What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

  Jules Michelet

  Justice, Firsts, Thirds

  Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.183, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley

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• Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Gymnastics, Justice, Tree

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

  Patsy Mink

  Justice, Parent, Choices

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• Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Learning, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.110, Stanford University Press

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• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

  Thomas More

  Men, Justice, Gold

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.74, Bibliolis Books

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Bad Ass, Justice

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wrath, Race, Color

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Justice, Liberation

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• Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

  Lucretia Mott

  Encouragement, Justice, Asking

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19

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• The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ideas, Justice, Enemy

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• Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Justice, Shouting, Components

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