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“But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.”

Has Beens Social Differences Justice Known Democracy Citizens Social Justice Institutions Fraud Arrangements Plutocracy

Author:Bill Moyers

“That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.”

“Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.”

“I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.”

Men Should Differences Justice Opinion Judgment Social Justice Angry Divides Dissent

Book:Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend

Source: Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend

“My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.”

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Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“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

“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

“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

“It is part of the amazing originality of Christ that there is to be found in his teaching no word whatever which suggests a difference in the spiritual ideals, the spheres, or the potentialities of men and women.”

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Author:Maude Royden

“Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.”

“It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.”

Knows Done Care Spiritual Differences Justice Planets Essentials Diversity Social Justice Take Care Change Yourself

Author:Alice Walker

“In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.”

World Want Long Running Differences Justice Race Diversity Social Justice Long Runs

Book:Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.”

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Author:James Wolfensohn

“Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.”