Social Issues Quotes

• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

  Isabel Allende

  Loyalty, Writing, Issues

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• There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Education, Country, Struggle

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• What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

  Trey Parker

  Issues, Connections, Social

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• You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Issues, Social, Knows

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.

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• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Stories, Ends

  "Tales of passion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  Rick Perry

  Ducks, Issues, Trying

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• About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Issues, Controversial, Significant

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Self, Issues, Moral

  "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.

  Max Lucado

  Impact, Issues, Culture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

  Assata Shakur

  Issues, People, Hip Hop

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• The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Opportunity, Issues, Community

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What are we seeking to achieve? We are seeking to optimize budget spending. I believe that even in such uneasy times we employ a very pragmatic approach towards economic and social issues. We do address major social problems and deliver on our promises to our people.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Issues, People

  Source: thesaker.is

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• As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

  Rob Lowe

  Issues, Citizens, Causes

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is about that. It's about everything. It's about life history. It's human. And we have to see it that way. We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It's about art, music, literature, money, science, love - the human experience.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Issues

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• I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation by adopting a very narrow view of several provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment. This trend, I believe, if continued, would restrict and could even prevent the Congress from addressing major environmental and social issues of the future.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Issues, Views

  Dianne Feinstein's opening statement at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

  Clay Shirky

  Issues, Talent, Social

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.23, Penguin

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Powerful, Real, Issues

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be a big factor, and money is linked to earning, and earning is influenced by politics.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Art, Believe, Writing

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in order to address major social issues. I don't think you give up theoretical rigor by writing in a way that addresses major social concerns and is at the same time accessible to wider informed general audiences.

  Henry Giroux

  Giving Up, Writing, Thinking

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The left are responsible for all the turmoil and the "social issues" of politics, because they're the ones constantly trying to corrupt it. And if people stand up and try to explain it, they are said to be the problem.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

  Michael K. Williams

  Issues, Addiction, Crime

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that progressive leftist intellectuals have failed to take on as a major political and educational project.

  Henry Giroux

  Educational, Issues, Political

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.

  David Platt

  Christian, Unique, Opportunity

  Source: blog.vyrso.com

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• Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

  Michael Haneke

  Drama, Issues, Trying

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• Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

  Deborah Kass

  Self, Issues, People

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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