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What I wanted was for them to have a grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts, to Alexander Hamilton and Martin Luther King Jr. Not told as a separate history, but as part of the story we all know. Not at the margins, but at the very center, the protagonists of the drama. And not just because they are black, or because they are women, but because they are part of the American epic. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
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Negro life in America was a never-ending series of negotiations: when to fight and when to concede. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
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
As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. -- Sheryl Sandberg
As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
The day they decided that Sneetches were Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. -- Dr. Seuss
All men are free and equal, in the grave. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
If men are to remain civilized, or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars, and whether they had one, or not, upon thars. -- Dr. Seuss
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t. -- Sheryl Sandberg
