Diversity Quotes - Page 29

• True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Heart, Equality

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.125

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

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Justice, Facts, Social

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• To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

  Albert Lutuli

  Christian, Men, Law

  "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

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• 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. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Justice, Wicked

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• Unity and victory are synonymous.

  Samora Machel

  Justice, Unity, Victory

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• It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

  Bernard Malamud

  Men, Justice, Doe

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.275, Macmillan

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• One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, People, Justice

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• The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

  Malcolm X

  America, Rights, Justice

  "Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America", Egyptian Gazette, August 25, 1964.

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• The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Asking, Accepted

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

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• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Color, Racism

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• Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, White, Justice

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• Growing is the result of learning.

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Growing, Results

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• The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Mean, Justice

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• Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

  Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

  Country, Hands, Justice

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• If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

  Eugenio Maria de Hostos

  Justice, Wish, Pursue

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Men, Race

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Enemy, Progress

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• Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Race, Rights

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Literature

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Daughter, Humor

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• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Tennis, Habit

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• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sweet, Cake, Justice

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.42, University of Toronto Press

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• We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

  Margaret Mead

  Doors, Justice, Steps

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Enlightenment, Way

  Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos (1984). “I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”, p.245, Verso

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