Social Service Quotes - Page 2

• There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

  Grace Napolitano

  Reform, Needs, Social

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• I hesitate talking about a program for change because we're in this moment where no one is listening to sex workers about how things should change. So I'm even speaking less as a former sex worker and more as a person trying to see the bigger picture that might be hard to see when you're doing sex work full-time, or running a social service organization, or doing all the things that a lot of sex worker activists are doing. It's hard work, and they don't necessarily get the time to step back and see the whole picture.

  Melissa Gira Grant

  Running, Hard Work, Listening

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Japan admitted the Imperial Army ordered the building of these brothels and the trafficking of the women. And now that it's been 70 years, there are only 46 remaining comfort women still alive in South Korea. So also in this deal, Japan is going to pay 1 billion yen - that's about 8 million U.S. dollars - to provide social services and health care to the surviving victims.

  Elise Hu

  Army, Japan, Korea

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money from important social services and public and higher education.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Fighting, Important

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Feelings, Suffering, Tools

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• I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

  Emily Yoffe

  Writing, People, Advice

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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• The difference between both is that social entrepreneurship has a much more financial transparency. There is no financial viability and that is where a corporate sector makes a difference because we maintain a balance between both the financial status and the social service.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Differences, Balance, Making A Difference

  Source: themanipaljournal.com

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• I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.

  Dean Spade

  Students, Daily Life, Strive

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• Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Social, Patronage, Savour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Army, Priorities

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

  Hans Kung

  Political, Earth, Problem

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• So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

  Gordon Parks

  Fashion, Thinking, Trying

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• Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

  Brian Molko

  Dresses, Social, Stage

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• And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

  Louise Slaughter

  Hard Work, Equal Pay, Issues

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• I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me. Lots of our friends are still in that world and I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the 70s and became disillusioned in the 80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Issues, Years

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as separate. Economy was producing wealth, society was spending. In the 21st century economy, this is not true anymore. Sectors like health, social services and education have a tendency to grow, in GDP percentage as well as in creating employment, whereas other industries are decreasing. In the long term, an innovation in social services or education will be as important as an innovation in the pharmaceutical or aerospatial industry.

  Diogo Vasconcelos

  Gdp, Creating, Issues

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• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Ezra Pound

  Vacuums, Doe, Use

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• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Evita Peron

  Book, History, Use

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• I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

  Gary Numan

  Mean, Autism, Being Different

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• Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

  Aly Khan

  Islam, Roles, Unjust

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• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

  Isabel Allende

  Loyalty, Writing, Issues

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• I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

  Joan Jett

  Age, Social, Young

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Emma Goldman

  Real, Politics, Revolution

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• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, Mind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.106, Rajpal & Sons

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• Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

  Joan Didion

  Mirrors, Ideas, Flawless

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.91, Zola Books

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