Diversity Quotes - Page 28

• Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Numbers, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.364, Open Road Media

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• We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

  Deborah Prothrow-Stith

  Teaching, Voice, Justice

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• Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

  Barbra Streisand

  Gay, Ideas, White

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• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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• There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.

  Sukarno

  Justice, Body, Alive

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• Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

  Sukarno

  Flower, Garden, Justice

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• The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

  Charles Sumner

  Justice, Humanity, Brotherhood

  "The Complete Works of Charles Sumner".

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• We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

  Deborah Tannen

  Unique, Justice, Groups

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Educational, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Justice, Honor

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.39, Whitaker House

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• Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

  Jean Toomer

  Men, Justice, Ifs

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• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Ignorance, Knowing, Justice

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Men, Giving, Justice

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.

  Sojourner Truth

  Land, Names, Two

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• In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

  Zhang Zai

  Moving, Men, Justice

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• The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Stars, Memorable, July

  Henry McNeal Turner (1971). “Respect Black: the writings and speeches of Henry McNeal Turner”

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• We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

  Desmond Tutu

  Black And White, Justice, Together

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Justice, Black

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• Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Too Much, Resources

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Justice, Want

  1985 Speech, Mar.

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• It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Men, Sight

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7028, Delphi Classics

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• Everyone speaks of himself with regard to his ownself, "I am above and the others are below," whilst all of them are around the globe like the blossom springing on the branches of the Kadamba tree.

  Varahamihira

  Justice, Tree, Branches

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• In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

  Alice Walker

  Fashion, Order, America

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.79, Rutgers University Press

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• It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Spiritual, Differences, Justice

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• The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

  Alice Walker

  Jobs, Self, Evil

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.274, Hachette UK

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