Social Justice Quotes - Page 15

• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Thinking, Sweat, Pyramids

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• There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.

  Sukarno

  Justice, Diversity, Body

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• Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

  Sukarno

  Flower, Garden, Justice

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• The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

  Charles Sumner

  Diversity, Justice, Humanity

  "The Complete Works of Charles Sumner".

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• Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

  Sukarno

  Justice, Liberty, Slavery

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• He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wall, Justice, Care

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Creative Unity”, p.61, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

  Deborah Tannen

  Unique, Justice, Diversity

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

  R. H. Tawney

  Educational, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."

  Tecumseh

  Country, Thinking, Justice

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Powerful, Native American

  Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

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• Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Sea

  Speech to William Henry Harrison, Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 14 Aug. 1810

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• Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that all who go through among my people may find it peaceful when they come, and leave peacefully when they go.

  Ten Bears

  Blood, Land, Justice

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• Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Teresa of Avila (2017). “The Way of Perfection”, p.39, Whitaker House

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• Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

  Jean Toomer

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  Jean Toomer

  Ignorance, Knowing, Justice

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Kindness, Men, Garden

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• That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Men, Giving, Justice

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went to the Lord an' asked him to give me a new name. And he gave me Sojourner because I was to travel up and down the land showing the people their sins and bein' a sign unto them. I told the Lord I wanted two names 'cause everybody else had two, and the Lord gave me Truth, because I was to declare the truth to the people.

  Sojourner Truth

  Land, Names, Two

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• In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

  Zhang Zai

  Moving, Men, Justice

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• The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Stars, Memorable, July

  Henry McNeal Turner (1971). “Respect Black: the writings and speeches of Henry McNeal Turner”

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• We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

  Desmond Tutu

  Black And White, Justice, Diversity

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Diversity, Justice

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• Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Diversity, Too Much

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Justice, Diversity

  1985 Speech, Mar.

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• We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Children, Racism, Justice

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