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Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Each of us should be allowed to rise as far as our talent and hard work can take us. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
Like and equal are not the same thing at all! -- Madeleine L'Engle
Then they yelled at the ones that had stars at the start. We’re exactly like you! You can’t tell us apart. We’re all just the same, now, you snooty old smarties! And now we can go to your frankfurter parties. -- Dr. Seuss
Their goal wasn’t to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talent. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
Negro life in America was a never-ending series of negotiations: when to fight and when to concede. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
The day they decided that Sneetches were Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. -- Dr. Seuss
It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. And why not? Who knew American democracy more intimately than the Negro people? They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. -Alexis de Tocqueville
