Social Justice Quotes - Page 29

• What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Mean, Acceptance, People

  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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• Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

  E. M. Forster

  Justice, Naked, World

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

  E. M. Forster

  Fall, School, Justice

  Abinger Harvest "Notes on English Character" (1936)

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• He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

  Anatole France

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.89, Anatole France

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• What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

  Anne Frank

  Christian, Responsibility, Justice

  Diary, 22 May 1944

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• They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.

  Barney Frank

  School, Kids, Two

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• Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

  Barney Frank

  Equality Under The Law, Justice, Diversity

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• Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

  Antonia Fraser

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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  Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

  Betty Friedan

  Justice, Knows

  Betty Friedan (1998). “It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

  Betty Friedan

  Country, Women, Lost Youth

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)

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• Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

  Betty Friedan

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

  Paulo Freire

  Justice, Diversity, Intellectual

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• We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

  Athol Fugard

  Justice, Diversity, Suffering

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• We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Sea, Justice

  "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.

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• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of slavery, commits the highest crime against God and man.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.47, Gale Cengage Learning

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• Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Spiritual, Men, Two

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  Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Diversity, Lazy

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• I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Quoted in Playboy, Nov. 1969

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• The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

  Clive James

  Essence, Class, Justice

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Cat, Race, Class

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• A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Men

  "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramón Jiménez (p. 231), 1957.

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• This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  James Weldon Johnson (2004). “Writings”

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