Social & Racial Sayings

79 sayings found from the Contemporary era from 79 authors

Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men.

— Benazir Bhutto Unknown
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I would like to see immigration exceptions for 'smart people.'

— Bill Gates 2009
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We live in a world that talks about innovations, about gender equality. We cannot see a country going back decades and centuries.

— Malala Yousafzai 2021
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A pretty girl ought simply to concern herself with fucking, and never with engendering.

— Marquis de Sade 1791 (approx.)
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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

— Aleister Crowley 1929
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I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

— Nikita Khrushchev 1963
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Putin for my birthday sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very sweet letter. I replied with bottles of Lambrusco and an equally sweet letter.

— Silvio Berlusconi 2022
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The human race is a tiny speck in the vastness of space. But we are capable of great things.

— Stephen Hawking Approx. 2000s
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You know, the nice thing about science is that it’s an equal-opportunity destroyer of belief systems.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson 2014
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Women are human beings and men are also human beings. But... men and women are not equal.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1979
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Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

— Deng Xiaoping 1980s
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The greatest danger to the world is the arms race. We must stop it.

— Mikhail Gorbachev 1988
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Democracy is not the power of the majority, but the protection of the minority.

— Boris Yeltsin 1992
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We have to be careful not to create a new kind of discrimination.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 2013
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They must know that a minority cannot impose itself on the majority. They can at most sit on the last bench and that's it.

— Lech Walesa 2013
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The United States is unusual among the nations of the world in having a citizenry that is primarily an immigrant population.

— Noam Chomsky 2006
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The principles of justice are those that would be chosen by rational beings in a situation of equality.

— John Rawls 1971
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The trace is not a presence but a simulacrum of a presence that dislocates, displaces, and refers beyond itself.

— Jacques Derrida 1967
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The only way to escape ideology is to embrace it.

— Slavoj Zizek 2000s
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The legacy of white supremacy is still alive and well in America.

— Cornel West 1993
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