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Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.Pervez Musharraf
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What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Breaking through the glass ceiling is only possible if you are stronger than glass.Matshona Dhliwayo
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I am confident of God’s faithfulness.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are the chosen, called and blessed peopleLailah Gifty Akita
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It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.Unknown
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One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness–the black gangster, the black rioter–that strikes the ultimate terror in white America. Perhaps it does, in the most individual sense. But in the collective sense, what this country really fears is black respectability, Good Negro Government. It applauds, even celebrates, Good Negro Government in the unthreatening abstract– The Cosby Show, for instance. But when it becomes clear that Good Negro Government might, in any way, empower actual Negroes over actual whites, then the fear sets in, the affirmative-action charges begin, and birtherism emerges.TaNehisi Coates
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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.Sonia Sotomayor
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Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed, either; the intent behind it was not rooted in a desire to help black people attain equal standing in society. It was riot insurance. It was a financial incentive for blacks to stay in their own communities and out of the suburbs. (183)Tanner Colby
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I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there. Page 188Sonia Sotomayor
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South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.Christina Engela