Social Justice Quotes - Page 14

• Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Justice, Diversity

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• Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

  Adrienne Rich

  Past, Thinking, Justice

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.4, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  Beah Richards

  Education, Race, Class

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• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

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• The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Humanity

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Lying, Father

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• In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

  Mary Robinson

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Father, Justice, Diversity

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• Goods which are not shared are not goods.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Justice, Diversity, Goods

  "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.

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• Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Fall, Race, Justice

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• Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Democracy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Change, Views, Civilization

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• We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Civilization, Justice, Diversity

  Greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born, January 9, 1940.

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• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Diversity, Liberty

  Wole Soyinka, James Gibbs (1980). “Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka”, p.10, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Justice, Diversity, Care

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• Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Resolutions, First Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, N.Y., 19 - 20 July 1848

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• We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Diversity, Justice, Citizens

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• "Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Thinking, White

  1937 Everybody's Autobiography, ch.1.

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• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, School, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Numbers, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.364, Open Road Media

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• We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

  Deborah Prothrow-Stith

  Teaching, Voice, Justice

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• Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

  Barbra Streisand

  Gay, Ideas, White

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