Quotes About Equality

whites' obsessive preoccupation with the happenstance of skin color?

Friedman described the situation in 1963 in these epigrammatic terms: "to the Negro demand for 'now,' to which the Deep South has replied 'never,' many liberal whites are increasingly responding 'later.

Counterracism was never an option.

difference that is prized but unprivileged,

Not through repression, but through knowledge of the differences within ourselves can we achieve the solidarity with others which, though necessarily partial, is essential for the creation of a more just and free world.

Elijah made it clear that"the Nation can rise no higher than its woman."According to Elijah, if there was anything worth dying over, was the effort to protect and defend the Black Woman: 11. WE BELIEVE our women should be respected and protected as the women of other nationalities are respected and protected.

There is nothing wrong with anything; there is nothing wrong with anybody.

I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.

I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

The clear lesson of New England's history is that when there are not enough suitable men around to run the world, women are perfectly capable of doing so.

Which demonstrates our need of a sense of history : we need it to know what real injustice looked like.

I don't care how they speculate, or what their answers are. We live as we can, we do what we must, and not everything goes by either Freudian or Victorian patterns. What I am sure of is that friendship—not love, friendship—is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Human qualities and emotions like love, charity, compassion, tolerance, patience, friendship, desire, hatred, ill-will, ignorance, conceit, etc., need no sectarian labels; they belong to no particular religion.

When, for instance, we meet a man, we do not look on him as a human being, but we put a label on him, such as English, French, German, American, or Jew, and regard him with all the prejudices associated with that label in our mind. Yet he may be completely free from those attributes which we have put on him.

To be attached to one thing (to a certain view) and to look down upon other things (views) as inferior—this the wise men call a fetter.'2

Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son,Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,No more modest than immodest.Unscrew the locks from the doors!Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,Yet utter the word Democratic, the wordEn-Masse.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.