Historical Inequality Quotes

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

We will accelerate our land redistribution program not only to redress a grave historical injustice but also to bring more producers into the agricultural sector and to make more land available for cultivation.

There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Resolved, that the Government of the United States, the nation with its institutions, of right belong to the white men who now possess them.

It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time, and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him.

Every civilization is founded on sins - every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

two centuries behind ours; their literati, half a dozen years before us.

My college degree is from a great university in 1944. I got my master's at Harvard graduate school, completely co-ed, in 1945. My mother got her college degree in 1920. What's the problem? Those opportunities were always there for women.

It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.