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

“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”

Ifs Ends Peace Diversity Social Justice Oppression Chains Ties Confined Repression Peace And Justice

Author:Toni Morrison

“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.”

Men Years Stills Earth Culture Found Justice Break Atheism Promise Diversity Social Justice Slave Bounds Rounds Positive Atheism Command Chains Prize Rescue Oppressors

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.”

Way Looks Lying Differences Justice Diversity Social Justice Slavery Bitter Chains Your Freedom

Author:John Oliver Killens

“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”

Firsts Lost Justice Rights Subjects Genius Fit Diversity Social Justice Independence Chains Tyrants Accustomed Bondage Limbs Cunning

Book:LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!”

Heart Hands Justice Share Brother Diversity Social Justice Equality Chains Earnest True Freedom Hearts And Hands

Book:Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

“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

“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