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“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.”

“Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.”

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

World Mind Littles Soul Feelings Eye School Strong Given Hurt Deals Behinds Sorrow Diversity Social Justice Busy My Soul Dirty Knives Too Busy Oysters Lurking Sobbing Sharpening

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.”

Culture Justice Deals Numbers Cities Diversity Social Justice Inadequate Beneficence Hull House

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

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

“The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.”

Government Culture Justice Deals Powerful Honesty Depends Diversity Tests Social Justice Honestly Privileged

Book:The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter

Source: The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter

“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

Ifs Mean Children School Reading Nations Justice Deals Education Diversity Social Justice Suicide Prison Inequality Description More Money Bent Literacy

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.”

Justice Deals Habit Diversity Social Justice Tennis Bad Habits

Author:Mary McCarthy

“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

“We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.”

Order Causes Waiting Justice Deals Poverty Crisis Social Justice Illness Heal Our Society Causes Of Poverty

Author:Pope Francis