Social Justice Quotes - Page 28

• The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Life, Science, Views

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Fear, Believe, Responsibility

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Long, Justice, Diversity

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• If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Justice, Slave, Humans

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• It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is the great collective iniquity begetting all individual iniquities.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Men, Rights, Perfect

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• Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Justice, Experience, Innocence

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• In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Order, Justice, Diversity

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• The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, White Man, Justice

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• Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

  James A. Baldwin

  Loss, Justice, Diversity

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• Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

  James A. Baldwin

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

  James A. Baldwin

  Land, Ties, Justice

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• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Recovery, Justice

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• It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.

  James A. Baldwin

  Gratitude, People, Justice

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Believe, Hero

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• The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

  James A. Baldwin

  Real, Men, White Man

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• Hatred is self-punishment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Hate, Self, Punishment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

  Frances Farenthold

  Running, Men, Justice

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• There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

  George Farquhar

  Justice, Rags, Scandal

  'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1

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• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

  William Faulkner

  Men, White Man, Justice

  The Bear pt. 4 (1932)

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• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

  Charles Ferguson

  People, Justice, Diversity

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• Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.

  Charles Ferguson

  Justice, Diversity, Community

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• We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Children, School, Organization

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• CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Gay, Doors

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• Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Justice, Diversity

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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