Diversity Quotes - Page 25

• The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Democracies Have, Justice, Democracy

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• The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Men, Justice, Social Justice

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• I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

  Mary Norton

  Justice, Members, Congress

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• Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Mother, Justice, Democracy

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• People create social conditions and people can change them.

  Osonye Tess Onwueme

  Justice, People, Social

  Osonye Tess Onwueme (1993). “Three Plays”, p.11, Wayne State University Press

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• It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

  George Orwell

  Home, Sweat, Justice

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

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• It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Giving, Justice, Answers

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

  Clarence Page

  Years, Justice, Choices

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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• Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

  Clarence Page

  Justice, Privilege, Social Justice

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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• We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Race, Justice

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• All I was trying to do was get home from work.

  Rosa Parks

  Home, Justice, Trying

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• Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

  Octavio Paz

  Possibility Of Change, Justice, Democracy

  Octavio Paz (1985). “One Earth, Four Or Five Worlds: Reflections on Contemporary History”, Harcourt

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• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Eye, Justice

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

  Plautus

  Mean, Justice, Useless

  "Trinummus" by Plautus, Act II, sc. 4, line 37,

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• A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Girl, Boys, Ideas

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1981). “Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s”

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• In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

  Alvin Francis Poussaint

  Law, Land, America

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• Accomplishments have no color.

  Leontyne Price

  Motivational, Color, Accomplishment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

  Leontyne Price

  Color, Hair, Justice

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• All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.

  Leontyne Price

  Justice, Ease, Has Beens

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• The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

  Qiu Jin

  Home, Rights, Justice

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• True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Enemy, Privilege

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• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Heart, School, Responsibility

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• We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Justice, People, Half

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• As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

  Jeannette Rankin

  War, Justice, Refuse

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.

  James T. Rapier

  Thinking, Color, Should Have

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