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“You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.”

People Humans Humanity Culture Justice Teach Teacher Words Of Wisdom Diversity Social Justice African American Being Human Inhuman Inhumanity Humanness

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Ideas Bigs Culture Justice Simple Diversity Understood Weakness Social Justice Familiar Not Interested Big Ideas Simple Ways

Author:Lucille Clifton

“None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.”

May Children School Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Welcome Goodbye

Book:Marva Collins' Way

Source: Marva Collins' Way

“An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.”

Needs Mean Children Helping Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Errors Ridicule

Book:Marva Collins' Way

Source: Marva Collins' Way

“The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.”

Real Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Faults

Book:Lun Yü

Source: Lun Yü

“Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.”

Doe Culture Energy Social Justice Freedom Liberty Youth Diversity Intellectual Social Justice Objectives Social Control

Author:John Conyers

“The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.”

Real Today Culture Justice Cities Groups Diversity Social Justice Illness Deprived American Cities

Author:John Henry Cox

“The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.”

Culture Winning Justice Diversity Social Justice Warmth Revolt Interpersonal

Author:John Henry Cox

“With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?”

Culture Justice Speech Diversity Constitution Social Justice Arrogance Cherish Freedom Of Speech Typical Say Anything

Book:Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only

Source: Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only

“Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.”

Culture Justice Diversity Racism Capitalism Social Justice

Author:Angela Davis

“The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.”

Firsts Persons Self Culture Justice Awareness Diversity Tests Self Awareness Social Justice Depth Civilized Sincerity Confrontation

Book:The Crow's Nest

Source: The Crow's Nest

“I am not in favor of caste, nor separation of the brotherhood of mankind, and would as willingly live among white men as Black, if I had equal possession and enjoyment of privileges, but I shall never be reconciled living among them subservient to their will.”

Ifs Men Culture Black Justice White Mankind Equal Diversity Social Justice Privilege Possession Favors Separation Enjoyment Brotherhood White Man Castes Subservient

Author:Martin Delany

“The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.”

“I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.”

Thinking Inspirational Important Use Culture Three Given Justice Minutes College Diversity Social Justice Important Things Library Surface Fifteen Schedules College Life Horizontal

Book:Dance to the Piper

Source: Dance to the Piper

“We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.”

Ifs Wells Stories Turns Culture Voice Differences Justice Listening Diversity Social Justice

Author:Barbara Deming

“Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.”

Culture Justice Please Diversity Prejudice Social Justice

Author:Aubrey Thomas de Vere

“There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents-if the term is to be used at all.”

Ifs Children Used Culture Parent Term Justice Diversity Social Justice Illegitimate Child

Author:Bernadette Devlin

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.”

People Ifs Way Wells May Has Beens Eye Past Used Culture Justice Land Identity Diversity Roots Social Justice Native Expecting Native Land

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”

Culture Justice Mines Diversity Social Justice Jew Islands Gentleman Temples Priests Ancestor Brutal Savages Honorable Solomon

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.”

Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice Depth Height Judged Risen

Author:Frederick Douglass

“You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.”

Knows Culture Asks Speak Justice College Diversity Mouths Social Justice Degrade

Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.”

Culture Justice Healing Mines Diversity Social Justice Fourth Sunlight July Stripes

Author:Frederick Douglass

“For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling in the nation must be quickened, the conscience of the nation must be roused, the propriety of the nation must be startled, the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed: and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.”

Men Needs Feelings Light Culture Nations Justice Fire Crime Needed Diversity Conscience Social Justice Storm Gentle Hypocrisy Exposed Showers Thunder Earthquakes Propriety Whirlwind

Author:Frederick Douglass

“They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.”

Hands Culture Justice Study Mankind Diversity Social Justice Whips

Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.”

Men Political Culture Justice Rights Diversity Claims Social Justice Entitled Old Woman Political Rights

Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.”

Ifs Men Culture Causes Justice Diversity Social Justice

Author:Frederick Douglass

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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