Social Justice Quotes - Page 39

• Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Justice, Diversity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Encouraging, Witty, Eye

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• Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Law, Justice

  'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386

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• The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Power, Justice, Diversity

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

  Dick Gregory

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

  Dick Gregory (1972). “No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

  Dick Gregory

  Son, Color, Hair

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• If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

  John Howard Griffin

  Country, Justice, Racism

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• When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

  John Howard Griffin

  Justice, People, Minorities

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• The question is one of fighting the causes and not just being satisfied with getting rid of the effects.

  Che Guevara

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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• We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep.

  Nicolas Guillen

  Running, Color, Years

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• As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.

  Lani Guinier

  Country, Talking, Issues

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• If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

  Janet Campbell Hale

  Men, Games, Play

  Janet Campbell Hale (1987). “The Jailing of Cecelia Capture”, p.58, UNM Press

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• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Justice, Diversity

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Justice, Diversity

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• So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

  Edith Hamilton

  Children, School, Air

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

  Freedom, Men, Political

  "On Compromise". Book by John Morley, 1874.

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• All generalizations are false, including this one.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Truth, Inspirational Life

  Attributed in "A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense" by Mark Twain, Seven Stories Press, (p. 61), January 4, 2011.

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• That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.

  Polybius

  Friendship, Country, Mistake

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• Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

  Albert Einstein

  Leadership, Healing, Men

  "Einstein on Peace".

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• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Learning, Self

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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

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• Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Eye, Men

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• Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, War, Ignorance

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.

  Etty Hillesum

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Peace, War

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