Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

• La única manera de garantizar que las personas con las que estás de acuerdo puedan hablar es apoyar los derechos de las personas con las que no estás de acuerdo.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Peace, Ubuntu, Rights

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• The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.

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  Canción, Niños, Escritura

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• On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

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  Equality, Organization, Example

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• You can't win what you don't fight for.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Fighting, Winning, Can't Win

  Joan Steinau Lester, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Coretta Scott King (2004). “Fire in My Soul”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

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  Racism, Black, Principles

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• The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

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  Law, Essence, Style

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• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Diversity, United States, Court

  "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

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  Racism, Important, Tools

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• The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

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  Believe, Years, Goal

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• Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

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  Thinking, Diversity, Challenges

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• La opresión racial de los negros en Estados Unidos ha hecho lo que ni la opresión de clase ni la opresión sexual, con toda su perniciosidad, han hecho jamás: destruir a todo un pueblo y su cultura.

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  Class, America, Racism

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• There is no reason to repeat bad history.

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  Inspirational, Reason, Repeats

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• It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

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  Writing, Thinking, Matter

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• Men without jobs do not form families.

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  Jobs, Men, Form

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• With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

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  Marriage, Children, Merit

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