Social Justice Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Justice, Diversity

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• Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

  Adrienne Rich

  Past, Thinking, Justice

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.4, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  Beah Richards

  Education, Race, Class

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• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Lying, Father

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• In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

  Mary Robinson

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937

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• No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Justice, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.578, GENERAL PRESS

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• Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Justice, Desire

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Democracy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Humanity

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Exercise, Color, White

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• You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

  Tim Wise

  White, People, Justice

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• It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.

  John Goodlad

  Teacher, Educational, Justice

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• Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching content knowledge seemed to buttress what was already the ed schools' most popular theory of learning, which argued that students should work collaboratively in constructing their own knowledge and that the teacher should be a 'guide on the side,' not a 'sage on the stage.'

  Sol Stern

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

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• The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Democracies Have, Justice, Diversity

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• White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  White, People, Justice

  Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books

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• Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

  Thomas Sowell

  Dwarves, Creating, Justice

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• The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Brother, Direct Action

  "Election Day is the Most Important Day of Your Life" by Joe Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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