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I am a man, a black man, an American.
Clarence Thomasborn 1948I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
- America
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman?
Sojourner Truth1797–1883Speech at the Women’s Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (29 May 1851), in the version Frances Dana Gage published in 1863; the report printed at the time, in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, has no “ain’t I a woman?”
- Women
We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu1931–2021Speech (1985) as quoted in Equality, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1989)
- Good & Evil
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
Mark Twain1835–1910Concerning the Jews (Harper’s Magazine, Sept. 1899)
We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren1891–1974Writing for the court, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
- Education
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
- Work
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (12 February 1909)
- Slavery
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Booker T. Washington1856–1915The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Kanye Westborn 1977Live on NBC’s A Concert for Hurricane Relief (2 September 2005)
- Presidency