Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann
The African American’s relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen’s African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates
I’m done with men… I’m going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don’t think I’m made for marriage. – Halle Berry
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! – H. L. Mencken
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. – Henry David Thoreau
We’re living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it’s difficult. – Hill Harper
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. – Hanna Rosin
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. – Helena Blavatsky
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. – Henry David Thoreau
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. – Haile Selassie
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. – H. P. Lovecraft
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great. – Havelock Ellis
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. – George William Norris
Women were real box office stars in the ’40s, more so than men. People loved to see women’s films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system. – Gwyneth Paltrow
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. – Henry Knox
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing. – Helen Fisher
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. – H. L. Mencken
Men can’t do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair. – Hans Vestberg
We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants. – Herbert Hoover
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, ‘Oh well, that’s for women’. – Holly Near
