Diversity Quotes - Page 17

• While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

  Eva Hoffman

  Justice, Perception, Savages

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• It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

  Linda Hogan

  Attachment, Land, Justice

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• Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Justice, Form

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

  Kristin Hunter

  Morning, Men, Clothes

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• 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 distilled from the mash you got.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Justice, Liquor

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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• We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Justice, Pay, Cohesion

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Political, Melting

  Quoted in Playboy, Nov. 1969

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• A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Men

  "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramón Jiménez (p. 231), 1957.

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• This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, Justice, Democracy

  James Weldon Johnson (2004). “Writings”

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• The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Christian, Past, Men

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• 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 can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

  Chief Joseph

  Home, Tired, Heart

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• All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Justice, Church

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• Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.

  Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes

  Lying, Justice, Prejudice

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• In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

  John F. Kennedy

  America, Justice, West

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• We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

  John Oliver Killens

  Lying, Men, White

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• What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

  John Oliver Killens

  Thinking, Color, America

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• The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

  John Oliver Killens

  White, America, Justice

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• America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Home, Europe

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• I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Block, Order

  Letter from Birmingham Jail, Alabama, 16 Apr. 1963, in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 1963, p. 81

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• 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 document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Hands, Justice

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• 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, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Mother, Justice, Childhood

  Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera Martin (1998). “Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Justice, Rewards, Merit

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• The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Wine, Men, Rights

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