“Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.” SocialPeaceEconomicDangerConflictInequalityTensionUbuntu Author:Pope Paul VI
“The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.” ThinkingShouldReasonReligionSocialReligiousAttitudeClearTroubleConditionsConflictIntellectualConcernedDoctrineTraditionalAdaptedSocial Conditions Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930
“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.” GivingAmericaLife IsHateSocialConflictCuresSocial LifeSquash Book:Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader Source: Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader
“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.” HumansHas BeensSpiritLostSocialJusticeIgnoranceConflictTransformationProfoundGreedCrueltyResolutionQuestsSolidarityExploringHuman SpiritReconciliationShatteredMediationWin WinSocial Transformation Author:Hizkias Assefa
“What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.” WorldHas BeensTodayEarthPoliticalSufferingSocialEnjoyReligiousMoralBloodTearsHeroConflictPatientPrivilegeNobleChosenMinoritiesWorld HistoryVansEnjoy Today Author:John Bartholomew Gough
“The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.” RealForceSocialLibertyConflictEqualityTriumphGuaranteesEquilibrium Author:Max Eastman
“From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to certain forms of tradition, to social and political environment, to false values.” LoveLifeTruthFormPoliticalJoyCertainSufferingValuesSocialEnvironmentConflictTraditionPrejudiceSlaveAriseUnconsciousTruth Of LifeTransientTruth LovePolitical Environment Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti