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• At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Night, Dope

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• Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Agency, Principles

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.97, American Foundation for the Blind

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• A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Keys, Leader, Vision

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• Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Morality, Disappear

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• The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction.

  Angela McGlowan

  Order, Self, Forever

  Angela McGlowan (2009). “Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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• The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Party, Issues, Tea

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• When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

  Simon Bird

  Space, Fans, Female

  "'I've had to sign seven breasts': Inbetweeners star Simon Bird on fans, marriage and his new sitcom". Interview with Steve Myall, www.mirror.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

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• Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Basketball, Beautiful, Spring

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• It's not Brits who think American readers are a bunch of whinging morons with the geo-social understanding of a wire coathanger, it's American editors.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Editors, Understanding

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• Women are the true modelers of social order.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Order, Social Order

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• I smoke a pipe abroad, because
  To all cigars I much prefer it,
  And as I scorn you social laws,
  My choice has nothing to deter it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Law, Choices, Cigar

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3699, Delphi Classics

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• The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.

  Daniel Henninger

  What If, May, Internet

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

  Harville Hendrix

  Social Transformation, Intervention, Therapeutic

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• I have requested the corporates to evolve plans under corporate social responsibility to build clean toilets specially for girl students in schools. India should learn from foreign countries, where people are disciplined and do not litter in public places.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, School

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• The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Circles, Two

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Diversity, Goal

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• Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Why Not, Lords And Ladies

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.125, Random House

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• At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

  Henry George

  Spring, Real, Past

  "Progress and Poverty". Book by Henry George, 1879.

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• Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

  Cesar Chavez

  Home, Past, Times Are Changing

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.296, Penguin

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• In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Men, Ideas, Political

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• Through our government's updated science, technology and innovation strategy, we are making the record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs and opportunities, and improve the quality of life of Canadians. Our government's Canada Research Chairs Program develops, attracts and retains top talent researchers in Canada whose research, in turn, creates long-term social and economic benefits while training the next generation of students and researchers in Canada.

  Ed Holder

  Jobs, Technology, Opportunity

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• Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.

  Ed Holder

  College, Organization, Issues

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• Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Keys, Circles, Differences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Simple, Race, Class

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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