Quotes About Equality

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.) The

The crew was mostly men. That's how it was and that's pretty much how it still is. It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

How they treat you is not necessarily who you are.

you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.

It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

is. It's a man's world and show business is a man's meal, with women generously sprinkled through it like overqualified spice.)

A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?

May I never wake up from the American dream.

Girls shimmered, as if all the light shone on them and not on the boys at all.

Rug muncher!

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I cold defeat that I could save the world.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white... the Negros will have no outlet but to go down a blind alley, if the sort of education which they are now receiving is to enable them to find the way out of their present difficulties.

THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro,

Carter G. Woodson

Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better.

to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.

Cooperation implies equality of the participants in the particular task at hand.

The differentness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. It is by the development of these gifts that every race must justify its right to exist.