Best social-justice & atheism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”

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Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”

Atheism Teaching Strength Weakness Social Justice Positive Atheism Sympathy Condolence Message

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.”

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Author:Wendell Willkie

“Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."”

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Author:Suzanne La Follette

“By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.”

People Wells Culture Justice Psychology Atheism Awareness Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Positive Atheism Ashamed Eliminating Preconceptions

Book:The Nature of Prejudice

Source: The Nature of Prejudice

“We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.”

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Book:Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union-whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes-winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry.”

“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”

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Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.”

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Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.”

Long Culture Church Justice Atheism Diversity Social Justice Positive Atheism Interfere Objections

Author:Brooks Atkinson

“Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.”

Real Justice Atheism Economic Diversity Social Justice Positive Atheism Economic Freedom Real Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.”

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Author:Robert M. Lindner

“To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“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.”

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Author:Lucretia Mott

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

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Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

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