Social Justice Quotes - Page 34

• Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Eye, Justice

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• Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

  Lord Acton

  Justice, Diversity, Challenges

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• By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

  Lord Acton

  Believe, Mean, Men

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Years, Justice

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• Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Numbers, Justice

  Jane Addams (1949). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.164, Hayes Barton Press

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• The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

  Jane Addams

  Justice, Diversity, Intellectual

  Jane Addams (1977). “On Education”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

  Muhammad Ali

  Justice, Diversity, Trying

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• America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dream, Native American, Medicine

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

  Gordon Allport

  Justice, Diversity, People

  Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Justice, Guilt

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• We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Creativity, Kids, Years

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• The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

  Maya Angelou

  Block, Ghetto, Men

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

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• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

  Hosea Ballou

  Justice, Bears, Burden

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• Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Self, Justice, Revolution

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• The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Dream, Real, Failure

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.126, Vintage

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• Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

  Jose Celso Barbosa

  Education, Color, Justice

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• The absurd man is he who never changes.

  Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

  Change, Men, Justice

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  When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Couple, Justice, Diversity

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949.

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• Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Wings, Justice, Diversity

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• A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Writing, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, People, Giving

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