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“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”

People Culture Situation Demand Diversity Social Justice Favors Status Quo Neutrality Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo Net Neutrality

Book:Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

Source: Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

Matter Culture Education Building Diversity Social Justice Educational Bridges High School Graduation Building Bridges

Book:Going to the Territory

Source: Going to the Territory

“New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism/ extreme nationalism culture.”

“Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.”

Together Culture Girl Pay Equal Diversity Labor Social Justice Unions Labor Union Equal Pay Organized Labor

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“A closed mind is a dying mind.”

Mind Culture Dying Diversity Social Justice Open Minded Closed Mind

Book:George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays

Source: George S. Kaufman and His Collaborators: Three Plays

“From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.”

Character Culture Social Justice Blood Modern Social Justice Jazz African American Contribution Banking Subway National Culture

Author:Bill Frist

“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.”

Should Lasts Culture Peace Justice Principles Cost Diversity Social Justice Reconciliation Peace And Justice Peace Justice Make Peace Not War Justice For All American Justice

Author:Corazon Aquino

“When you get these jobs you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”

Jobs Culture Community Work Responsibility Social Justice

Author:Toni Morrison

“Sonnet 2500 You're right, I am not a poet, I have not written hundreds of poems; you're right, I am not a writer, I have not written a couple of books. I'm sorry, I am not a poet, I have not written hundreds of sonnets, I have written thousands - I have not written a handful of books, I have erected a library. You do not have the scales in your two-dimensional intellect to measure the multidimensional Ecosystem of Expansion - larger than tribe, larger than time, I am Detonation of The First Multicultural Civilization.”

Culture Civilization Diversity Social Justice Tolerance Civil Rights Integration Multiculturalism Inclusive Cultural Studies

Book:Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”

Quotes Culture Community Social Justice Colonization Community Development

Book:From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“But on one occasion he was lost for words. 'If it's all as bad as you describe,' asked an inconspicuous young man at the end of one of the lectures, 'then why did you choose to become a Gypsy?' His image of Gypsies had marked them as a mere lifestyle, a fashion, a brand.”

Culture Education Racism Social Justice Gypsy Cultural Appropriation Stereotyping Romani Romani Gypsies

Book:I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

Source: I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“It was too much for the Georgians to bear. They had left Macon as heroes and expected to return triumphant, captives in hand. Instead, they had been the ones chased, ridiculed, spat upon, hunted down by law, man, woman, and child. Not only would street boys take aim at them with spoiled eggs and other garbage, but Boston's higher society mocked them for being uneducated, low class, trash, as it it were they, and not the ones they were there to capture, who dwelled at the bottom of the world.”

Culture Race Social Justice Populism White Nationalism

Book:Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Source: Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom