Social Justice Quotes - Page 12

• The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

  Qiu Jin

  Home, Rights, Justice

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• The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

  Simone Weil

  Justice, Diversity, Stronger

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.50, Routledge

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• Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Mother, Justice, Diversity

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• All I was trying to do was get home from work.

  Rosa Parks

  Home, Justice, Diversity

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• I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

  Leontyne Price

  Color, Hair, Justice

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• Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

  Octavio Paz

  Possibility Of Change, Justice, Diversity

  Octavio Paz (1985). “One Earth, Four Or Five Worlds: Reflections on Contemporary History”, Harcourt

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• It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Giving, Justice, Diversity

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wrath, Race, Color

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

  Toni Morrison

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

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• The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

  Lucretia Mott

  Inspiring, Justice, Feminist

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• I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.

  Lucretia Mott

  Ideas, Justice, Atheism

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• Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Justice, Diversity, Shouting

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• The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Men, Diversity, Justice

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• Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

  Ann Northrop

  Justice, Diversity, Normalcy

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Justice, Made

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Race, Justice

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• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Eye, Justice

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

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• Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Children, Fighting, Men

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Accomplishments have no color.

  Leontyne Price

  Motivational, Color, Accomplishment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Brother, Gay, Racism

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• It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Animal, Government, Justice

  "My Own Story: Top Biography".

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