Our Society Quotes - Page 15

• The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman. There is nothing in that proposed amendment that requires a criminal prosecution or that directs the attorneys general to go out and round people up, but it declares a principle and it also creates a defensive barrier against those who would alter that traditional definition of marriage.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Men, People, Principles

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Giving, Charity

  Source: www.mott.org

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• Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

  Karla Souza

  Hair, White, Different

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

  Karla Souza

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• If gay marriage is a real thing, gay infertility must be a real thing. It's not fair. I mean, it wasn't fair they couldn't get married, and now it's not fair that they can't have babies, even though they're not infertile, that doesn't matter. And so there must be access to infertility insurance for married gay couples, if our culture and if our society is to be fair and equal for one and all, and it is coming, and don't laugh about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Couple, Real

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Golf teaches you honesty. It teaches you discipline. It gives you a strong appreciation of nature. And personal responsibility, something that lacks in our society at times. I mean, it's only your fault, you can't blame anyone else when you shank it. Or pick the wrong club.

  George W. Bush

  Appreciation, Strong, Honesty

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

  Eric Foner

  Hero, Men, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Issues, Missing, Links

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I don't know what America has really learned. We are too quick to do what's expedient on behalf of our culture of greed and hedonism. We're quite prepared to go to conditions of tyranny in order to sustain that culture, and we do it in the name of democracy, when nothing could be more undemocratic. We do it in the name of saving the values of our society, when the way we behave corrupts those values. We do it in the name of God in whom we believe, when in fact we have corrupted our own vision of the Christian journey.

  Harry Belafonte

  Christian, Believe, Journey

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

  Gary Yourofsky

  People, Becoming, Chance

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• The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Lying, People, Deceit

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

  David Simon

  Cities, Creatures, Dies

  Source: progressive.org

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• Just like Hillary Clinton is against the miners, she is against the police, believe me. Those peddling, the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, America, Police

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

  Christina Ricci

  Girl, Snakes, Black

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Color, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is waged in segregated, impoverished communities defined largely by race, and the targets are the most vulnerable, least powerful people in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Powerful, War, Race

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The number one problem in our society today is short-term thinking.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, Numbers, Society Today

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• For us, we are all very different, our languages are very different, and our societies are very different. But if we could extract ourselves from our point of view and sort of look down at human life the way a biologist looks at other organisms, I think we could see it a different way.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Views, Different

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

  Michael Yates

  Racism, Force

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Daughter, Powerful, Son

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.

  Barbara Crampton

  Strong Women, Real, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this is the very meaning of jihad: to manage your intention to get your inner peace when it comes to the spiritual journey. In our society, that means face injustice and hypocrisy, face the dictators, the exploiters, the oppressors if you want to free the oppressed, if you want peace based on justice.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Struggle, Mean

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I think it's important to America's future and to the future of the American dream and our people and the unity and purpose and cohesion of our society that everybody feel like the pace of change isn't just dizzying, but it can work for them and not against them.

  Ashton Carter

  Dream, Thinking, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, War, Drama

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• In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to put 'em up there on it, and then we can't wait for the day they fall off of it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fall, People, Waiting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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