Diversity Quotes - Page 22

• Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Honesty, Native American

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• I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

  Black Elk

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Memorable, Justice, Culture

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• The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

  Franz Boas

  Race, Justice, Special

  Franz Boas (1969). “Race and Democratic Society”, p.20, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

  Franz Boas

  People, Justice, Groups

  Race and Democratic Society ch. 7 (1945)

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• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

  Julian Bond

  Education, Children, School

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• I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to a lot of people's rules on this sort of thing. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other-a world that doesn't bother to tell us exactly what one or the other is.

  Kate Bornstein

  Men, People, Justice

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.18, Routledge

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• Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Law, Giving, Justice

  Subhas Chandra Bose (1962). “Crossroads: Being the Works of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1938-1940”

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• That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Christian, Justice, Doe

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.190, Northwestern University Press

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• People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Real, Commitment

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• After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Meaningful, Justice, Culture

  Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Struggle, Justice, Culture

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• The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Justice, Culture, Reader

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

  Jerry Brown

  Justice, Culture, May

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• Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Justice, Males, Culture

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

  Pearl S. Buck

  America, Justice, Healthy

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• It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, Justice, Groups

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• The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Justice, Mind, Prejudice

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• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

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• We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Military, Men, Justice

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• Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Attitude, Superficial Things, Blood

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• In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Self, Justice, Effort

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Circles, Justice, Individuality

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.322, Cambridge University Press

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  The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Honesty, Powerful, Government

  Jimmy Carter, Bill Adler (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter”, Book Sales

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• No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

  Jimmy Carter

  Education, Jobs, Opportunity

  Jimmy Carter (2016). “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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