Social Justice Quotes - Page 12

• That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

  V. K. Krishna Menon

  Expression, Justice, Diversity

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• Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Gymnastics, Justice, Diversity

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

  Kelly Miller

  Civilization, Race, Justice

  "Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America".

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• Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.

  Kelly Miller

  Inspiration, Race, Justice

  Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”

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• The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

  Patsy Mink

  Justice, Diversity, Parent

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• There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Two, Hair, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.922, Xist Publishing

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• Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Learning, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.110, Stanford University Press

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• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

  Thomas More

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.74, Bibliolis Books

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• Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Bad Ass, Justice

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wrath, Race, Color

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

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• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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• I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

  Lucretia Mott

  Ideas, Justice, Atheism

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• Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.

  Lucretia Mott

  Encouragement, Justice, Diversity

  Lucretia Mott (1850). “Discourse on Woman”, p.19

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• The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ideas, Justice, Diversity

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• Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Justice, Diversity, Shouting

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Democracies Have, Justice, Diversity

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• The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Men, Diversity, Justice

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• Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

  Ann Northrop

  Justice, Diversity, Normalcy

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• I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

  Mary Norton

  Justice, Diversity, Members

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• Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Mother, Justice, Diversity

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• People create social conditions and people can change them.

  Osonye Tess Onwueme

  Justice, Diversity, People

  Osonye Tess Onwueme (1993). “Three Plays”, p.11, Wayne State University Press

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