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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.”

Thinking Should Matter Born Justice Answers Land Crime Color Diversity Should Have Social Justice My Future

Author:James T. Rapier

“More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.”

“Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.”

Writing Justice Diversity Social Justice Definitions Description Categories Multicultural

Author:Ishmael Reed

“Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Made Seems Past Justice Diversity Tradition Social Justice Historical Feminist Sporadic

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?”

People Ifs Should Humans Helping Humanity Justice Human Beings Race Education Class Diversity Survival Bigger Social Justice Salary What Is Education

Author:Beah Richards

“Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.”

Humans Soul Justice Silence Possibility Gay Diversity Social Justice Killing Flying Rising Exploration Being Human Diminish Shrinks Shrinking Withering

Author:Marlon Riggs

“The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.”

Humanity Justice Risk Diversity Social Justice Carrie Intolerance

Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.”

Ends Justice Answers Silence Diversity Social Justice Critics Injustice

Author:Paul Robeson

“I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.”

Culture Wealth Justice Materials Achievement Diversity Social Justice Ancient China Denied Unseen Greece Ancient Greece Material Wealth

Book:Here I Stand

Source: Here I Stand

“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

“This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.”

Country Home Lying Father Born Justice Diversity Died Social Justice Bones Our Country Soil Our Father

Author:Paul Robeson

“In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.”

Men May Justice Rights Diversity Social Justice

Author:Mary Robinson

“Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.”

“Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.”

Might Father Language Justice Imagine Diversity Social Justice Most Powerful Mexico Pigment

Book:Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

Source: Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father

“Goods which are not shared are not goods.”

Justice Diversity Social Justice Goods

Author:Fernando de Rojas

“Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.”

Humans Fall Nations Justice Race Achieve Diversity Ideals Aim Social Justice Remains Human Rights Human Race Dominant Rise And Fall

Author:Carlos P. Romulo

“Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.”

Justice Democracy Diversity Social Justice Static

Book:What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.”

People Dies Change Justice Views Conditions Civilization Diversity Method Social Justice Point Of View Incapable Adapting

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

Remember Justice Civilization Diversity Hatred Social Justice Injustice Oppression Wedges Injustice And Oppression

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”

Political Nations Justice Diversity Thirds Social Justice Ill Great Depression

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.”

People Country Justice Pure Diversity Social Justice Including Immigrants Descendants Mayflower

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.”

Men Should Trying Energy Justice Military Gay Despair Diversity Social Justice Lifelong Gay Men Pacifist Quaker

Author:Ned Rorem

“Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.”

Justice Judging Diversity Judgment Social Justice Judgement Mistaken Judging Others Do Not Judge Judgment Of Others Not Judging

Book:Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries

Source: Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries

“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.”

Ifs Humanity Justice Greater Doors Diversity Difficulty Social Justice Deny Favors

Book:The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

Source: The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

“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.”

Men Spiritual Found Christ Differences Justice Teaching Diversity Men And Women Ideals Social Justice Spheres Originality

Author:Maude Royden

“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.”

Should School Justice White Diversity Should Have Social Justice Dancing Mary Jane Gloves Thirteen Mary Jane Wearing White

Author:William Ruckelshaus

“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.”

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

Wisdom Natural Justice Wise Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Dependent Antipathy

Book:THE

Source: THE

“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.”

Men World Believe Politics Belief Justice History Millions Fate Ready Diversity Social Justice Providence

Author:Richard Rumbold

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

Justice Deals Diversity Social Justice Stranger Traveller

Author:Saadi

“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.”

Different America Social Justice Diversity Concepts Social Justice Historical Backgrounds Ideology Pot 1960s Melting Melting Pot

Author:Edward Said

“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.”

Mind May School Individual Justice Failing Danger Masters Succeed Diversity Social Justice Scholarship

Author:Geoffrey Sampson

“I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.”

Use Funny Justice Brain Diversity Social Justice Uterus

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Real Force Justice Accepting Taken Diversity Social Justice Slave Chains

Book:God's Bits of Wood

Source: God's Bits of Wood

“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?”

War Whole Justice Crime Diversity Murder Social Justice Mad Checks Isolated Manslaughter

Author:Seneca the Younger

“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.”

Way Long I Can Motivational Easy Justice Existence Ambition Diversity Social Justice Personal Growth Strive Philanthropy Something Better My Ambition Clearing Goals And Ambitions Ambitious Goals

Book: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

Source: 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

“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.”

“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.”

People World Doe Justice Diversity Social Justice Hungry Brethren

Author:Dorothee Solle

“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.”

World Doe Important Problem Justice Effects Diversity Evidence Crisis Social Justice Financial Aids Locals Pollution Destined Financial Markets

Author:Susan Sontag

“I have one abiding religion-human liberty.”

Humans Justice Liberty Diversity Social Justice Abiding

Book:Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

Source: Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

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

Whole Care Justice Poor Diversity Social Justice Poor Man Incumbents Riches And Poors

Author:Baruch Spinoza

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

Country Justice Duty Diversity Social Justice Sacred Secure

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Justice Citizens Demand Diversity Social Justice Republic Reconstruction Suffrage

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“"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.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Shows Justice White Race Diversity Social Justice Native Mean People White Race

Author:Gertrude Stein

“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.”

May Helping School Justice Teacher Groups Diversity Female Social Justice Forgotten Grades Educator Surveys Grades In School Bibliography

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

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

Way Believe Important Reason Values Justice Numbers Economic Diversity Social Justice Columns Economic Systems

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“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.”

Certain Voice Justice Silence Heard Teaching Diversity Social Justice Hearing

Author:Deborah Prothrow-Stith

“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.”