Quotes on Diversity

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

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

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

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.

All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

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.

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.

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