Social Justice Quotes - Page 37

• The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

  Confucius

  Real, Justice, Diversity

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

  John Conyers

  Freedom, Justice, Diversity

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• The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

  John Henry Cox

  Real, Cities, Justice

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• The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

  John Henry Cox

  Winning, Justice, Diversity

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• With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

  James Crawford

  Justice, Diversity, Freedom Of Speech

  James Crawford (1992). “Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants.

  Harold Cruse

  Lying, Thinking, White

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• The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of roses"-our America trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.

  Ruben Dario

  Daughter, Dream, Eye

  Ruben Dario, “A Roosevelt”

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• Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Justice, Diversity

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• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  Clarence Day

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.

  Martin Delany

  Men, White Man, Justice

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• The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.

  Lloyd deMause

  Children, Betrayal, Moving

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• I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, College, Thinking

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books

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• We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

  Barbara Deming

  Voice, Differences, Justice

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• Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

  Aubrey Thomas de Vere

  Justice, Diversity, Prejudice

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• There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Children, Justice, Diversity

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• From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.

  John Dewey

  Children, School, Hands

  "The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society".

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• It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.

  Isak Dinesen

  Eye, Past, Land

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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  You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

  Frederick Douglass

  Justice, Diversity, Depth

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• You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

  Frederick Douglass

  College, Justice, Diversity

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.4, Chicago Review Press

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• The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Healing, July, Justice

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fire, Light

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

  Frederick Douglass

  Hands, Justice, Diversity

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.402, Chicago Review Press

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• We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.102, Chicago Review Press

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• What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

  Frederick Douglass

  July, Years, Justice

  Speech, Rochester, N.Y., 5 July 1852

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• To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Race, Color, Justice

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