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“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”

Years Culture Justice Answers Diversity Victim Social Justice Constant Slave Injustice Cruelty Celebration Fourth Gross July Abolition Days Of The Year

Author:Frederick Douglass

“We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.”

Justice Teach Social Justice

Author:Will Durant

“A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”

Writing Culture Nations Justice Diversity Ideals Social Justice

Book:My people: the story of the Jews

Source: My people: the story of the Jews

“Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.”

Should Children Age School Lying Suffering Culture Justice Trouble Judging Diversity Social Justice Curiosity Average Fifteen Eleven Paralysis Suspension Atrophy

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”

Lasts Culture Force Social Justice Class Diversity Social Justice Analysis Distinction Separating Social Class Sticks And Stones Class Distinction

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

“We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.”

Trying Seems Culture Passion Difficult Justice Emotional Diversity Conscious Prejudice Social Justice Rational Motive Bias

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.”

Reality Faces Form Values Culture Challenges Justice Struggle Diversity Tasks Social Justice Mad Chaos Insight Surrender Fixed

Author:Ralph Ellison

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”

Men Mind Firsts Culture Justice Revolution Keys Diversity Social Justice Individuality Eras One Man Another Man Nonconformity

Book:The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.”

Years America Culture Nations Justice Missing Equal Diversity Vote Social Justice Pageant Miss America Beauty Pageant Equal Respect

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.”

Justice Rights Feminism Return Social Justice Inevitable Phenomenon Womens Rights Frost Flowering Nothing New Recurring Backlash

Author:Susan Faludi

“Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.”

Men Justice White Possibility Brother Battle Social Justice My Brother Deprived Anti Semitism

Author:Frantz Fanon

“Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.”

Shows Action Hate Culture Justice Existence Demand Behavior Diversity Social Justice Discrimination Appropriate Lynching

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.”

Ifs Doe Culture Justice Awareness Building Ought Diversity Built Social Justice Bridges

Book:The Damned

Source: The Damned

“The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves.”

Writing Country Mother Culture Nations Justice Diversity Conscious Regard Social Justice Extensions Plunder Settlers Mother Country

Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.”

Men Government Running Political Culture Politics Justice Diversity Social Justice Feminist Womens Rights Unqualified Women Rights Women Right

Author:Frances Farenthold

“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

Justice Poverty Crime Social Justice Scandal Shameful Rags Rags To Riches

Author:George Farquhar

“They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.”

Men Justice White Taught Comfort Stronger Social Justice Endure Vices Laziness White Man Bondage Evasion Intemperance

Author:William Faulkner

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.”

Thinking Stills Self Used Culture Justice Poor Diversity Social Justice Vocabulary Deprived Needy Dimes Disadvantaged Underprivileged Overused

Author:Jules Feiffer

“A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.”

People Needs Form Culture Justice Easier Diversity Social Justice Addiction Fierce Sentimental

Author:Charles Ferguson

“It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.”

Problem Culture Justice Fashion Easier Diversity Tools Social Justice Democratic Currents Inheritance Trophies Caress Up To Date

Author:Charles Ferguson

“Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.”

“We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.”

“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.”

Ifs Mean Culture Fighting Justice Diversity Social Justice License Worth Fighting For

Author:Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Fear of difference is fear of life itself.”

Culture Differences Justice Diversity Social Justice Fears Of Life

Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.”

People Should Mean Culture Justice Acceptance Conflict Diversity Importance Social Justice Mean People

Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s

“Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.”

World Justice Social Justice Good Things Very Good Naked Shirts Colour

Book:Two Cheers for Democracy

Source: Two Cheers for Democracy

“It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Feelings Might School Form Joy Fall Justice Taught Sorrow Mouths Social Justice Wide Public School Pipe Englishmen Great Joy

Author:E. M. Forster

“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.”

Men Culture Justice Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Pretension Flattered

Book:The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.”

Doe Christian Justice Responsibility Social Justice Jew Thrown Judaism Discord

Author:Anne Frank

“They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.”

“Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.”

Firsts Law Used Culture Justice Theory Healthy Diversity News Stronger Social Justice Remains Used To Be Dedicated Good News Bad News Homophobia Equality Under The Law

Author:Barney Frank

“Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.”

Ifs Persons Culture Courses Justice Diversity Social Justice Objectives Almighty Almighty God

Author:Antonia Fraser

“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”

Knows Justice Social Justice

Book:It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement

Source: It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement

“The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.”

“Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.”

Culture Sound Justice Doors Diversity Social Justice Closing Protectiveness

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.”

Culture Justice Activity Diversity Intellectual Social Justice

Author:Paulo Freire

“We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.”

Suffering Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Compounds

Author:Athol Fugard

“We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.”

Ifs Men May Care Culture Asks Justice Cases Path Sea Office Diversity Social Justice Ask Me Thrown Barriers Captains Arbitrary

Author:Margaret Fuller

“Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.”

World Culture Justice Mankind Diversity Appreciate Logic Social Justice Endure

Book:Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977

Source: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977

“A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.”

Culture Justice Revolution Diversity Program Transformation Social Justice Violent Peaceful Transfers Non Violent Seizures Relationships Ending Peaceful Revolution Violent Revolution

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.”

Culture Justice Secret Enemy Diversity Social Justice Southern Oppressors Persecuted

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.”

Ifs Justice Garden Social Justice Save Me

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble to sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short.”

“To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.”

Firsts Political Culture Social Justice Race Moral Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Educational Improvement Reform Height Expansion Futility Social Reform Political Freedom Educational Reform

Book:Annual

Source: Annual

“Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.”

Culture Justice Virtue Diversity Social Justice Reform Without You

Author:James Gibbons

“The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.”

Important Would Be Culture Justice Emotion Emotional Diversity Capable Social Justice Important Things Sorry Limitation

Author:Andre Gide

“I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.”

Culture Justice Views Cutting Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Ran

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.”

Culture Justice Silence Diversity Victim Social Justice Illness Mortals Harvest Silence Is

Book:The Little Virtues

Source: The Little Virtues

“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.”

Culture Justice Inspiring Growing Up Growing Diversity Social Justice

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

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