Social Justice Quotes - Page 32

• Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

  Black Elk

  Children, Native American, Heart

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Education is all a matter of building bridges.

  Ralph Ellison

  Education, High School Graduation, Bridges

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “Going to the Territory”, p.66, Vintage

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• But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

  Paul Farmer

  Simple, Medicine, Justice

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• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  Edna Ferber

  Diversity, Mind, Dying

  George Simon Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Jr., Edna Ferber, John P. Marquand (1984). “George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Diversity, Enemy

  "The Christian Science Monitor", April 1, 1974.

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Honesty, Future

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• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Teacher, Art And Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Sex, Rights, Diversity

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

  Heinrich Heine

  Science, Diversity, Political

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• Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Wisdom, Self

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• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

  Emma Goldman

  Change, Men, Diversity

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Diversity, Culture

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revenge, Hate, Hatred

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1477, e-artnow

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• I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Writing, Diversity

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Essential Einstein”, Pomegranate

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• Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Tyrants, Evil, Cry

  Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

  Anne Lamott

  Religious, Israel, Justice

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.26, Anchor

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• I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

  Lucille Clifton

  Crazy, Mean, People

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• We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

  Malcolm X

  Rocks, Land, Diversity

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• From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

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• Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Issues, Justice

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.67, Routledge

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• To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Real, Doe, Answers

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.67, Oxford University Press

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