Social Justice Quotes - Page 36

• The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

  13 Copy quote

• We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Military, Men, Justice

  9 Copy quote

• Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Attitude, Superficial Things, Blood

  56 Copy quote

• In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Circles, Justice, Diversity

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.322, Cambridge University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

  Jimmy Carter

  Education, Jobs, Opportunity

  Jimmy Carter (2016). “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

  Roger Casement

  Song, Men, Thinking

  Roger Casement's speech from the dock, 1916.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

  Aime Cesaire

  Justice, Diversity, Devil

  40 Copy quote

• When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead.

  Aime Cesaire

  America, Justice, Diversity

  62 Copy quote

• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Vegetables, Justice, Diversity

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

  106 Copy quote

  Show source

• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Learning, Justice

  12 Copy quote

• Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Roots, Drawing

  5 Copy quote

• Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Race, Justice, Diversity

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.143, Xist Publishing

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!

  Lydia M. Child

  Tyrants, Justice, Diversity

  "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VI, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

  Lydia M. Child

  Rap, Justice, Diversity

  Letter to Sarah Shaw, 1856.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

  Lydia M. Child

  Exercise, Justice, Diversity

  Message to Woman Suffrage Supporters, 1875.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

  Shirley Chisholm

  White, People, Justice

  Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

  Chiyo Uno

  Justice, Diversity, Wish

  Rebecca L. Copeland, Chiyo Uno (1992). “The Sound of the Wind: The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo”, p.72, University of Hawaii Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Skills, Roots, Racism

  401 Copy quote

• Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

  Pearl Cleage

  Racism, Justice, Diversity

  12 Copy quote

• I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

  Lucille Clifton

  Writing, Simple, Ideas

  75 Copy quote

• ...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Justice, Goal, Enabling

  4 Copy quote

• None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

  Marva Collins

  Goodbye, Children, School

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Mean, Errors

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

  110 Copy quote

  Show source