Our Society Quotes - Page 14

• To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.

  Barack Obama

  Long, People, Looks

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility. There's distortion, and it's hurting our society. And as a result of that, there will be forces that, one way or another, are going to naturally bring that into equilibrium.

  Ray Dalio

  Hurt, Media, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting.

  Octavia Spencer

  Uplifting, Mom, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Boys, Rights

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Kids, Math

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

  Susan Sontag

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Now terrorism is not the greatest threat facing our societies.

  Edward Snowden

  Terrorism, Threat

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

  Rene Marie

  Kind, Stranger, Mates

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The U.S. military is so far behind the rest of our society.

  Allyson Robinson

  Military, Behinds

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• It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

  Laura Huxley

  Intelligent, Generations, Next

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• John Lewis is an icon in our society.

  Al Sharpton

  Icons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think it's worrisome that Barack Obama actually contributed to the bifurcation of our society. I don't think that he made nearly enough effort to be a uniter. And there's, I think, been a backlash against him, and some of that has been reflected in Trump's success. And I think it's really sad, and that's part of Obama's legacy.

  Mona Charen

  Thinking, Effort, Legacy

  "Barbershop: Trump's Tweets, Press Conference And Obama's Farewell". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2017.

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• Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Force, Remains

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

  Dolores Huerta

  Ignorance, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

  Dolores Huerta

  Needs, Attention, Society Today

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

  David Simon

  Running, Cities, Ideas

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Running, Loneliness, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.

  Keith Ellison

  Kings, Fighting, Successful

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

  Keith Ellison

  Together, Needs, Lasts

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" With David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Islamic, Europe

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Mistake, People, Islam

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I believe that Muslims that are in our society today are of course equal as anybody else, as long as they adhere to our laws, to our constitution, to our values.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Law, Long

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• [We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

  Geert Wilders

  Islam, Immigration, Enough

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• Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.

  Joseph Stalin

  Cities, Organization, People

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• I think the world has changed dramatically since September 11th. It should force us to recognize that we are going to have to defend the free institutions of our society against those who are simply not willing to belong to a civil order.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Order, September 11

  Source: www.aims.ca

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