Social Issues Quotes - Page 4

• When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Issues, Needs

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• I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

  Linda Sue Park

  Jobs, Thinking, Issues

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• This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Issues

  "Conservatives condemn 'error of biblical proportions'" by Christopher Heredia, www.sfgate.com. June 27, 2003.

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• The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Home, Rights

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.

  Kenneth Cole

  Egypt, Issues, Serious

  "Egypt protests". www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Kids, Games

  "Cal Ripken, Jr. Looks Back on Hall of Fame Career, Looks Forward with New Book, 'Hothead'". "On the Record" with Martha Maccallum, www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

  Henning Mankell

  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.

  Mark Steyn

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  "Mark Steyn: RomneyCare Was A 'Technocratic Solution'". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 12, 2011.

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• The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

  Rod Parsley

  Issues, Social, Court

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• Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Children, Mean

  "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

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• It's not social issues I care about.

  John McCain

  Issues, Care, Social

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• It just seems like right now we’re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it’s a lousy opinion or a shitty opinion, and comics I don’t think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I don’t care how nicely you say it, I don’t care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else.

  Jim Norton

  Country, Fall, Thinking

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• The experience of [the African] bishops is that evangelization itself should be foremost, that the God of Jesus Christ must be known, believed in and loved, and that hearts must be converted if progress is to be made on social issues and reconciliation is to begin, and if - for example - AIDS is to be combated by realistically facing its deeper causes and the sick are to be given the loving care they need. Social issues and the Gospel are inseparable.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Heart, Issues

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• People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

  William Bennett

  Character, Issues, People

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book edited by William Bennett, 1993.

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• There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

  Moby

  Keys, Rights, Differences

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• Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

  Charlaine Harris

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

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• But on the other hand, in discussion and debate concerning social issues or American foreign policy, Vietnam or the Middle East, for example, the issue is constantly raised, often with considerable venom. I've repeatedly been challenged on grounds of credentials, or asked, what special training do you have that entitles you to speak of these matters. The assumption is that people like me, who are outsiders from a professional viewpoint, are not entitled to speak on such things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, Issues, People

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• All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

  James Ellroy

  Issues, Serious, Want

  James Ellroy (1998). “Hollywood Nocturnes”, Delta

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• When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Rights, Issues, Abortion

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• I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Issues, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art, music, engineering, science, medicine, finance, the world of architecture and technology - if those are left out, then you're not getting a full sense of the human condition. History is human and we human beings are involved in all kinds of things and that's part of our humanity.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Technology

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

  Howard Gordon

  Issues, Conservative, Social

  "Interrogating the Creators of 'Homeland'". Interview with Hamed Aleaziz, www.motherjones.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.

  Fatima Bhutto

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

  Richard Branson

  Organization, Issues, Benefits

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