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The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far… — Betty Friedan
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. — James Gibbons
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy… — Dick Gregory
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… — Edith Hamilton
In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God… — Carter Heyward
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is… — Zora Neale Hurston
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. — Robert M. Hutchins
Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they… — Chief Joseph
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed. — Thomas a Kempis
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities,… — Maxine Hong Kingston
There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from… — Walter Savage Landor
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution.… — Thomas B. Macaulay
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a… — H. L. Mencken
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from… — Kelly Miller
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
All I was trying to do was get home from work. — Rosa Parks
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy. — Octavio Paz
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. — Alvin Francis Poussaint
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… — Adrienne Rich
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… — Anita Roddick
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,… — Sarah Schulman
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still… — R. H. Tawney

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