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• If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a photo together? Can you give me your autograph?" They would bring their expensive Armani or Prada wallet to sign. Other people who are desperate show me a photo of their dead daughter and ask: Can you support me? I tell them: How can I? Morally, of course, I sympathize with you. But I cannot support you and you cannot support me. This is the condition of this society. We are separated.

  Ai Weiwei

  Daughter, Support You, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

  Joe Biden

  Long, Community, Common

  "Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency" by E. J. Dionne Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1987.

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• This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Growing, Gaps, Way

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• We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

  Angela Davis

  Inspiring, African American, Mind

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Character, Effort

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• And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.

  David Icke

  School, Creating, People

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Divorce, Blow

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .

  Chali 2na

  Drinking, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Nothing is more important than restoring a high degree of autonomy to educational experiences so that those who grow up in this society and troubled world have the best available tools to grasp the challenges that imperil our national and human future.

  Richard A. Falk

  Growing Up, Educational, Challenges

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.

  Puff Daddy

  Men, White, Black

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• Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong Women, Real, Empowering

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• I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.

  Ted Haggard

  Bisexual, Thinking, Ifs

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

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• Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

  Eartha Kitt

  Ghetto, Boys, Guy

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  We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

  Hillary Clinton

  Anger, Thinking, Society

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• I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America

  Robert Stone

  Dog, War, Fall

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• My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

  John Adams

  Historical, Mind, Progress

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Thinking, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no money, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.

  Joan Konner

  Children, Mean, Foundation

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• When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

  Bryan Brown

  America, Able, Persons

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

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• In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Pride, Men, Identity

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• I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

  Mike Tyson

  Sometimes, Feels

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

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• The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Civilization, Society

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

  Jonathan Swift

  Law, Special, Peculiar

  "Gulliver's Travels". Book by Jonathan Swift. Part IV: "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms". Chapter 5, 1726.

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• My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Independent

  Adlai E. Stevenson's speech in Detroit, Michigan, October 7, 1952.

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