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“The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.”

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Hu Shih (December 17, 1891 - February 24, 1962) was a prominent Chinese philosopher, litterateur, and educator. He was one of the key figures in the New Culture Movement and played a significant role in promoting the movement for vernacular Chinese, which had a profound impact on modern Chinese literature and thought. more

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.”

Humans Persons Self Form Interest Justice Diversity Highest Social Justice Self Interest Human Service

Book:Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

“When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.”

Men Justice Morning Diversity Clothes Social Justice Get Up Armor

Author:Kristin Hunter

“Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.”

Persons Justice Dark White Rocks Thousand Diversity Social Justice

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.”

Inspirational Age Grows Laughing Positive Humour Wise Words Laughter Sense Of Humor Getting Older

Author:Maurice Chevalier

“A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.”

People Wells States Justice Diversity Social Justice Liquor

Book:Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories

“We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.”

Knows Justice Pay Honest Diversity Social Justice Being Honest Acquire Shortcomings Pupils Cohesion

Book:Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

“Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.”

Men Two Spiritual Justice Democracy Diversity Social Justice Rational Characteristics Conception Spiritual Beings Equality And Justice

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

Knows Want Justice Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Investing Ignorant Blissful Ignorance

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

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