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“Goods which are not shared are not goods.”

Justice Diversity Social Justice Goods

Author:Fernando de Rojas

“Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.”

Humans Fall Nations Justice Race Achieve Diversity Ideals Aim Social Justice Remains Human Rights Human Race Dominant Rise And Fall

Author:Carlos P. Romulo

“The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.”

People Believe Enough Together Justice Trouble Determination Social Justice Firm

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.”

Justice Democracy Diversity Social Justice Static

Book:What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.”

People Dies Change Justice Views Conditions Civilization Diversity Method Social Justice Point Of View Incapable Adapting

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”

Remember Justice Civilization Diversity Hatred Social Justice Injustice Oppression Wedges Injustice And Oppression

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”

Political Nations Justice Diversity Thirds Social Justice Ill Great Depression

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.”

People Country Justice Pure Diversity Social Justice Including Immigrants Descendants Mayflower

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.”

Men Should Trying Energy Justice Military Gay Despair Diversity Social Justice Lifelong Gay Men Pacifist Quaker

Author:Ned Rorem

“Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.”

Justice Judging Diversity Judgment Social Justice Judgement Mistaken Judging Others Do Not Judge Judgment Of Others Not Judging

Book:Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries

Source: Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries

“The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.”

Ifs Humanity Justice Greater Doors Diversity Difficulty Social Justice Deny Favors

Book:The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

Source: The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

“It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.”

Men Spiritual Found Christ Differences Justice Teaching Diversity Men And Women Ideals Social Justice Spheres Originality

Author:Maude Royden

“It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.”

Should School Justice White Diversity Should Have Social Justice Dancing Mary Jane Gloves Thirteen Mary Jane Wearing White

Author:William Ruckelshaus

“Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.”

“Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.”

Wisdom Natural Justice Wise Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Dependent Antipathy

Book:THE

Source: THE

“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”

Men World Believe Politics Belief Justice History Millions Fate Ready Diversity Social Justice Providence

Author:Richard Rumbold

“The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.”

World Humans Stills Two Desire Justice Existence Progress Social Justice Reform Engines Human Society Coexistence

Author:Bertrand Russell

“He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.”

Justice Deals Diversity Social Justice Stranger Traveller

Author:Saadi

“Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is "America." This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation.”

Different America Social Justice Diversity Concepts Social Justice Historical Backgrounds Ideology Pot 1960s Melting Melting Pot

Author:Edward Said

“To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.”

Mind May School Individual Justice Failing Danger Masters Succeed Diversity Social Justice Scholarship

Author:Geoffrey Sampson

“I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.”

Use Funny Justice Brain Diversity Social Justice Uterus

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.”

“Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.”

“It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.”

Real Force Justice Accepting Taken Diversity Social Justice Slave Chains

Book:God's Bits of Wood

Source: God's Bits of Wood

“We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?”

War Whole Justice Crime Diversity Murder Social Justice Mad Checks Isolated Manslaughter

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.”

Way Long I Can Motivational Easy Justice Existence Ambition Diversity Social Justice Personal Growth Strive Philanthropy Something Better My Ambition Clearing Goals And Ambitions Ambitious Goals

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.”

“Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.”

Persons Doe Asks Justice Behavior Social Justice Behave Attributes

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?”

Men School Justice Easier Moon Social Justice Improving Public School

Author:B. F. Skinner

“God told me to look after my people-all are my people.”

People Looks Justice Social Justice

Author:Smohalla

“Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.”

People World Doe Justice Diversity Social Justice Hungry Brethren

Author:Dorothee Solle

“Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.”

World Doe Important Problem Justice Effects Diversity Evidence Crisis Social Justice Financial Aids Locals Pollution Destined Financial Markets

Author:Susan Sontag

“I have one abiding religion-human liberty.”

Humans Justice Liberty Diversity Social Justice Abiding

Book:Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

Source: Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka

“Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.”

Whole Care Justice Poor Diversity Social Justice Poor Man Incumbents Riches And Poors

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”

Country Justice Duty Diversity Social Justice Sacred Secure

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.”

Justice Citizens Demand Diversity Social Justice Republic Reconstruction Suffrage

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Shows Justice White Race Diversity Social Justice Native Mean People White Race

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.”

May Helping School Justice Teacher Groups Diversity Female Social Justice Forgotten Grades Educator Surveys Grades In School Bibliography

Book:Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem

“Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.”

Way Believe Important Reason Values Justice Numbers Economic Diversity Social Justice Columns Economic Systems

Book:Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender

“We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.”

Certain Voice Justice Silence Heard Teaching Diversity Social Justice Hearing

Author:Deborah Prothrow-Stith

“Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.”

“They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.”

Thinking Justice Building Diversity Built Social Justice Sweat Deep Thought Pyramids Wise Women Beads Pharaohs

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.”

Ifs States Body Justice Alive Diversity Social Justice Conviction Representatives Clash Cauldrons

Author:Sukarno

“Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.”

Ifs Doe Grows Justice Flower Diversity Garden Social Justice Nationalism Internationalism

Author:Sukarno

“The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.”

Age Humanity Justice Gone Diversity Social Justice Brotherhood Chivalry Unity In Diversity

Author:Charles Sumner

“Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.”

Justice Liberty Social Justice Slavery

Author:Sukarno

“He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.”

Care Loses Justice Moral Wall Social Justice Slave Glad Chains Who Cares Distrust Exclusion Love Freedom

Book:Creative Unity

Source: Creative Unity

“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”

Knows Individual Justice Groups Diversity Unique Social Justice Representatives Unique Individuals

Book:You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”

“I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."”

People Thinking Mind Country Spirit Universe Asks Justice My Own Liberty Tears Return Red Social Justice Fortune Conception Makers Governors Treaties Of My Mind Landmarks

Author:Tecumseh