Diversity Quotes - Page 27

• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Doors, Justice, Humanity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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• It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.

  Maude Royden

  Spiritual, Teaching, Men

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• It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

  William Ruckelshaus

  School, Should Have, White

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• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

  David Ruggles

  Wise, Wisdom, Justice

  David Ruggles (1834). “The "extinguisher" Extinguished!: Or, David M. Reese, M.D. "used Up."”, p.13

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• I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

  Richard Rumbold

  Believe, Fate, Men

  On the scaffold, in T. B. Macauley 'Histories of England' vol. 1 (1849) ch. 1

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• He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

  Saadi

  Justice, Stranger, Deals

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• Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation.

  Edward Said

  America, Justice, Historical

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• To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.

  Geoffrey Sampson

  School, Justice, Mind

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• Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.

  Sarah Schulman

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.

  Sarah Schulman

  School, Rights, Media

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• Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

  Hazel Scott

  Hands, Justice, Want

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• Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

  Hazel Scott

  Justice, Black, World

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• It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

  Ousmane Sembene

  Real, Taken, Justice

  Ousmane Sembène (1995). “God's Bits of Wood”, p.20, Heinemann

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• We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Mad, Justice

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XCV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1925.

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• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Ambition, Long

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2064, e-artnow

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

  Dorothee Solle

  People, Justice, Doe

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• Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

  Susan Sontag

  Justice, Important, Doe

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• I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Liberty, Abiding

  Wole Soyinka, James Gibbs (1980). “Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka”, p.10, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Justice, Care, Poor

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• Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Justice, Sacred

  Resolutions, First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 19 - 20 July 1848

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• We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Justice, Citizens, Demand

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• "Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Thinking, White

  1937 Everybody's Autobiography, ch.1.

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• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, School, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

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