Social Justice Quotes - Page 13

• It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

  George Orwell

  Home, Sweat, Justice

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

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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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• Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

  Clarence Page

  Years, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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

  Rosa Parks

  Home, Justice, Diversity

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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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• To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

  Alan Paton

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Men

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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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• 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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• A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Girl, Boys, Ideas

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1981). “Growing up free: raising your child in the 80s”

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• Accomplishments have no color.

  Leontyne Price

  Motivational, Color, Accomplishment

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Heart, School, Responsibility

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• We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Justice, Diversity, People

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• As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

  Jeannette Rankin

  War, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.

  James T. Rapier

  Thinking, Color, Should Have

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

  Helen Reddy

  Social Taboos, Justice, Diversity

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• If I have to, I can do anything.

  Helen Reddy

  Justice, Diversity, Ifs

  "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)

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• I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

  Helen Reddy

  Strong, Justice, Diversity

  "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)

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