Diversity Quotes - Page 32

• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Silence

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

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Humanity, Risk

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Silence, Answers

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• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Achievement, Culture

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

  Paul Robeson

  Inspirational, Country, Father

  Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee, 12 June 1956

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• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Lying, Father

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• 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.

  Mary Robinson

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Father, Justice, Mexico

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• Goods which are not shared are not goods.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Justice, Social Justice, Goods

  "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Fall, Race, Justice

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• Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Justice, Democracy, Static

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Change, Views, Civilization

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• We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Civilization, Justice, Hatred

  Greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born, January 9, 1940.

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Justice, Political, Great Depression

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, People, Justice

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• As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.

  Ned Rorem

  Military, Gay, Men

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• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Justice, Judging, Judgement

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.355, UPNE

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• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Doors, Justice, Humanity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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• It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.

  Maude Royden

  Spiritual, Teaching, Men

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• It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

  William Ruckelshaus

  School, Should Have, White

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• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

  David Ruggles

  Wise, Wisdom, Justice

  David Ruggles (1834). “The "extinguisher" Extinguished!: Or, David M. Reese, M.D. "used Up."”, p.13

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• I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

  Richard Rumbold

  Believe, Fate, Men

  On the scaffold, in T. B. Macauley 'Histories of England' vol. 1 (1849) ch. 1

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• He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

  Saadi

  Justice, Stranger, Deals

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