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• The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

  Gary L. Francione

  Mean, Animal, Rights

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• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

  Religious, Leader, Agendas

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• Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

  Moshe Katsav

  Competition, Well Known, Manners

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Generosity, Nonprofits, Social

  "Do You Give in the Dark? Some Scary Philanthropic Realities" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

  Dawn Lundy Martin

  Art, Thinking, Difficult

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

  August Wilson

  Believe, Writing, Social

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• Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

  Sherrod Brown

  Rights, Government, Safety

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• When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society.

  Michio Kushi

  Writing, Race, Environment

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• Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Community, Inspire, Stories

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Nice, Years

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• Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

  Peter L. Berger

  Mean, Simple, Issues

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• I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

  Andre Dubus

  College, Men, Wings

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• To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. Nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Self, Ego

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.337, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

  Stockwell Day

  Trying, Typical, Stories

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• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Jim Leach

  Drawing, President, Reform

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• I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

  Penelope Lively

  Writing, Social, Century

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

  Saul Alinsky

  Our World, Two, Kind

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• If we work for social change - and it is good to do such things - let us always do it with an awakened heart big enough for all. There is no enemy; there is only ignorance. There is no one to hate, only many to love.

  John Kehoe

  Hate, Heart, Ignorance

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  Camille Paglia

  Blow, White, African American

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• I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

  Camille Paglia

  America, Political, Spirit

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• Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Commitment, Responsibility

  "Why We Must Unite Against The Unprincipled Speculators". www.businessinsider.com. March 8, 2010.

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• Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

  John Podhoretz

  Reflection, Culture, Causes

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• If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Salman Rushdie, Deepa Mehta: Movies Not to Blame for Real-World Violence (Q&A)". "Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2013.

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