Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.
EminemTo conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThere is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
Richard P. FeynmanBlack men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘
Marilyn MonroeGravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.
Richard P. FeynmanI had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie RobinsonThe concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand RussellIn various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
Thomas SowellI cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
Jackie RobinsonWorking out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
Richard P. FeynmanThe same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.
Isaac NewtonI believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Jimmy CarterReligious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThere could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert EinsteinWhen I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
Richard P. FeynmanI always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.
Alice WalkerIt’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
Lady GagaThere were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.
Richard P. FeynmanAs far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert EinsteinIt is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.
Ruth Bader GinsburgBig jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore RooseveltWhile physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Stephen HawkingSome formulas are too complex and I don’t want anything to do with them.
Bob DylanAtoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.
Richard P. FeynmanI’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
Christopher HitchensWe have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.
Pope FrancisAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia WoolfIt doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.
John LennonYou never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.
Joe BidenAll the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.
Richard P. FeynmanWe don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
Kamala HarrisI said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIt is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
Madeleine AlbrightSocial progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl MarxTo like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
E. E. CummingsMen weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady GagaWe get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?
Richard P. FeynmanWe can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.
Michelle ObamaClever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard ShawBut I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.
Madeleine AlbrightIf I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?
Charles BukowskiMy first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.
Stephen HawkingI want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.
Noam ChomskySexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.
Angelina JolieI grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.
Alice WalkerFor most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia WoolfI think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
Stephen HawkingIf I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.
George Bernard ShawIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo GalileiMy father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.
Stephen HawkingThe stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.
Clint EastwoodWomen will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry AdamsI’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.
Vivienne WestwoodA man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.
Marilyn Monroe