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“As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.”

Source: What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard

“No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.”

Men America Justice Liberty Rights Citizens Equal Diversity Treats Social Justice Tolerance Assumption Superiority Equal Rights

Author:Wendell Willkie

“Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.”

Justice Position Diversity Accounts Absolutes Social Justice Relative Observers Measurement

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.”

Justice Materials Broken Diversity Female Social Justice Hindrance Female Beauty Male Beauty

Author:Naomi Wolf

“Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.”

Men Reason Seems Justice Diversity Roots Prejudice Social Justice Justify

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.”

People Thinking Mind Young Justice Education Teach Diversity Deserve Social Justice Educational Literacy Cultivation

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.”

World Justice Struggle Diversity Social Justice Faculty Obliged

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.”

Humans Justice Virtue Progress Diversity Social Justice Improvement Checks Educated Vindication

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.”

Feels Reason Would Be Care Justice Opinion Sorrow Diversity Weakness Tasks Social Justice Endless Variety Charm Prevailing Meanness

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

World Justice Diversity Social Justice Charity Vindication Charity And Love

Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.”

Natural Justice Alive Diversity Social Justice Useless Endeavor Establishment Pernicious

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.”

Used Culture Justice White Diversity Universal Social Justice Theme Significance

Author:Merle Woo

“Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.”

Ifs Justice Rights Equal Diversity Social Justice Instruction Equal Rights

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.”

Trying America Justice White Diversity Social Justice Folks Triumph

Book:An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

Source: An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

“No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.”

People Should Nations Wealth Justice Poverty Rich Sea Materials Diversity Should Have Social Justice Islands Isolated Material Wealth

Book:A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

Source: A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young

“We must take the profit out of prejudice.”

Justice Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Profit Racket

Author:Coleman Young

“The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.”

People Thinking May Enough Justice Mistake Attitude Practice Danger Behavior Diversity Social Justice Vocabulary Positively

Book:To be equal

Source: To be equal

“Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.”

Source: Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society

“We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.”

Want Justice Diversity Social Justice Slave Graves

Author:Emiliano Zapata

“I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.”

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.”

Knows Men Writing Culture Literature Diversity Social Justice Profound Ignorant Self Knowledge Lectures

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.”

Humans Political Culture Justice Human Beings Economic Diversity Majors Prejudice Social Justice International Burden Significance Unnecessary Implications Racial Prejudice Sociological

Book:Prejudice and Your Child

Source: Prejudice and Your Child

“The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.”

Source: Prejudice and Your Child

“The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.”

Political Culture Social Justice Dark Economic Subjects Masters Diversity Victim Social Justice Guilt Greed Educational Cruelty Ghetto Colony Insensitivity

Book:Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

Source: Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

“The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.”

Humans May Culture Individual Force Justice Human Beings Sin Class Modern Diversity Devil Social Justice Ancient Innocent Damn Devices Artificial

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?”

Political Culture Nations Justice Millions Cost Ten Diversity Social Justice Illegal Unjust Catastrophe Foreigners Exclusion Political Life

Book:W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings

Source: W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings

“I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.”

Source: Darkwater: The Givens Collection

“I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.”

Believe Self Culture I Believe Justice Race Pride Diversity Social Justice Injustice I Believe In Scorn Lineage

Book:Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

Source: Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

“This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.”

“Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.”

Men Different Together Desire Passion Given Social Justice Equal Diversity Method Social Justice Stations Vitality Vary

Author:Xunzi

“A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.”

Men Understanding Justice He Man Behavior Diversity Social Justice Discourse

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.”

People Feels Justice White Levels Fields Diversity Advantage Social Justice Accustomed Playing Fields Competitive Advantage Handicapped

Book:Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Source: Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

“In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can only be achieved if the speaker who has dominated speaks less and listens more.”

Ifs America Culture Speak Justice White Century Balance Conversation Diversity Social Justice Realms Speakers One Sided Speak Less

Author:David Mura

“Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.”

Way Problem Reality Justice Our Lives Drink Diversity Racism Social Justice Shoes Cups Ties Sexism Topics Defining

Author:Paula Rothenberg

“People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.”

People Way Justice Diversity Social Justice Claws

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.”

Justice Taught Diversity Social Justice Deeds Ugly

Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles

“Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.”

Universe Justice Plans Diversity Social Justice Unity Variety

Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind

“Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.”

Social Justice Race Diversity Social Justice Invention Traits Brutes Social Science

Author:Gerald Vizenor

“I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.”

Knows Country Father Enjoy Born Religious Justice Liberty Pride Diversity Social Justice Soil Glorify Ancestry Pilgrim Forefathers Religious Liberty

Author:Augustus Washington

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

Soul Culture Class Elements Diversity Social Justice Prison Equality Criminals Protest Brotherhood Socialist Disobedience Being Different Kinship Commonality Lower Class

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.”

Ifs Real Stories Culture Peace Attention Opinion Our Lives Diversity Social Justice Careful Life Story Another Life Commonality

Author:Barbara Deming

“If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.”

Ifs Humans Justice Ability Responsibility Study Rights Diversity Gains Increase Social Justice Independence Spheres Incline

Author:Kang Youwei

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

Should Light Culture Education Liberty Learning Diversity Social Justice University

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

Men Culture Literature Black White Diversity Social Justice Misery White Man Misery And Pain

Author:Frederick Douglass

“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.”

Culture Language Diversity Social Justice Males Sentences Supremacy

Book:Pornography: men possessing women

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

Inspirational Needs Mind Motivational Culture Black Change Atheism Positive Diversity Social Justice Things Change Of My Mind Need A Change

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”

People Culture Situation Demand Diversity Social Justice Favors Status Quo Neutrality Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo Net Neutrality

Book:Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

Source: Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

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