Arthur Ashe Quotes

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Arthur Ashe

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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

Gabrielle Giffords
- People
- Women
- Guns
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

Manju Warrier
- Women
- Change
- Marriage
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

Patricia Marx
- Men
- High
- Girl
If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

Warren Farrell
- Men
- Women
- Man
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Walter Scott
- Men
- Power
- Help
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

Nancy Gibbs
- History
- Star
- Sports