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“There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”

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Juan Montalvo, born on April 13, 1832, was an influential Ecuadorian author and journalist. Known for his satirical and critical literature, he made a significant impact on Latin American literature. more

“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”

Stills Problem America Justice Race Color Diversity Solutions Aspect Social Justice Slavery Bitter Bitterness Wrath Grapes Vintage Descendants Race And Color

Book:The Oxford history of the American people

Source: The Oxford history of the American people

“Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.”

Mean Justice Diversity Social Justice Liberation

Author:Toni Morrison

“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.”

World Nations Justice Inspiring Source Social Justice Feminist Virtuous Womens Rights Fountain Degradation Suffrage Being A Strong Woman Women Rights Woman Suffrage Nigeria Independence Women's Suffrage Virtuous Woman

Author:Lucretia Mott

“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.”

Ideas Justice Moral Atheism Social Justice Slave Injustice Positive Atheism No Idea Passivity

Author:Lucretia Mott

“Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.”

May Justice Goes On Diversity Encouragement Asking Social Justice Active Favors Scales Cultivation Hindrance Removal Elevation

Book:Discourse on Woman

Source: Discourse on Woman

“The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.”

Ideas Spirit Justice Enemy Plans Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Obsession Chiefs Alternatives New Ideas Inability Ideological

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.”

Justice Diversity Social Justice Components Positively Shouting

Author:Gamal Abdel Nasser

“The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.”

Country Age Lines Justice Gone Influence Source Diversity Social Justice Currents Boundaries Isolation Wire Separating Barbed Wire

Book:Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution

Source: Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution

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