Social Justice Quotes - Page 39

• Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Encouraging, Witty, Eye

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• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Law, Justice

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386

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• The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Power, Justice, Diversity

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

  Dick Gregory

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

  Dick Gregory (1972). “No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

  Dick Gregory

  Son, Color, Hair

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• If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

  John Howard Griffin

  Country, Justice, Racism

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• When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

  John Howard Griffin

  Justice, People, Minorities

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• The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

  Che Guevara

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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• We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.

  Nicolas Guillen

  Running, Color, Years

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• As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

  Lani Guinier

  Country, Talking, Issues

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• If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

  Janet Campbell Hale

  Men, Games, Play

  Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.58, UNM Press

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• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Justice, Diversity

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Justice, Diversity

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• So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

  Edith Hamilton

  Children, School, Air

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

  John Stuart Mill

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Education, Children, Mean

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• The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

  Charles Fourier

  Women, Equality, Sisterhood

  Theory of Four Movements vol. 2, ch. 4 (1808)

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• Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

  Medea Benjamin

  Teamwork, Positivity, Opportunity

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• A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

  H. G. Wells

  Children, Mean, Opportunity

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• Men are born equal but they are also born different.

  Erich Fromm

  Respect, Equality, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  Wendell Willkie

  Freedom, Fighting, Equality

  One World (1943) ch. 13

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• Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

  Theodore Parker

  Freedom, Mean, Diversity

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• You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Freedom, Men, Political

  "On Compromise". Book by John Morley, 1874.

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