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“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

“The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.”

Feels Doe Process Justice Race Inspire Amount Genius Diversity Standards Social Justice Educational Crush Accomplished Sparks Depressing Oppressors

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.”

“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”

“Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.”

“The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.”

Needs Doe Has Beens Modern Diversity Social Justice Conformity Oppressed Defects Modern Education

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”

People Feels Mean Doe Culture Black Crazy Scene Diversity Social Justice Bounds Craziness

Author:Lucille Clifton

“To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”

Feels Doe Real Problem Answers Social Justice Real Questions

Book:The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

Source: The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

“The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.”

Children Doe Can Do Education Teach Teaching Diversity Social Justice Pupils

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.”

“The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.”

Firsts Doe Class Citizens Constitution Social Justice Equality Civil Rights World War 2 Second Class Citizens

Author:Wendell Willkie

“Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.”

Doe Culture Understanding Wealth Justice Diversity Social Justice Tolerance Our Society Trickle Down

Author:Muhammad Ali

“America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.”

Doe Dream Seems America Remember Values Culture Wealth Justice Diversity Social Justice Medicine Native Native American

Book:The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

“What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.”

Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

“That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.”

Ifs Doe Christian Culture Courses Justice Diversity Social Justice Jew Despised Persecuted Good Christian

Book:The Mortal Storm

Source: The Mortal Storm

“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.”

Want Humans Doe Differences Justice Human Beings Skins Social Justice Accidents Layers

Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“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

“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

“What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.”

Doe Christian Justice Responsibility Social Justice Jew Thrown Judaism Discord

Author:Anne Frank

“It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.”

Knows Men Doe Able Justice One Thing Diversity Social Justice Live By

Book:Dubin's Lives: A Novel

Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel

“Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.”

Mean Doe Justice White Diversity Social Justice Oppression Exploitation Degradation

Author:Malcolm X

“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.”

Knows Men Want Children Doe Enough Grows Justice Race Class Color Diversity Social Justice Sovereign Bankers Pennies Groove Racks Flipped Predestined Soon Enough Race And Color

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“'He means well' is useless unless he does well.”

Wells Mean Doe Justice Diversity Social Justice Useless

Author:Plautus

“Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.”

Persons Doe Asks Justice Behavior Social Justice Behave Attributes

Author:B. F. Skinner

“Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.”

People World Doe Justice Diversity Social Justice Hungry Brethren

Author:Dorothee Solle

“Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.”

World Doe Important Problem Justice Effects Diversity Evidence Crisis Social Justice Financial Aids Locals Pollution Destined Financial Markets

Author:Susan Sontag

“"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Shows Justice White Race Diversity Social Justice Native Mean People White Race

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.”

Ifs Doe Grows Justice Flower Diversity Garden Social Justice Nationalism Internationalism

Author:Sukarno

“It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.”

Writing Humans Doe Realizing Justice Human Beings Race History Stage Diversity Social Justice Historical Pity Human Race Jam

Author:Rebecca West

“Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.”

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Author:Joseph Brant

“Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.”

Mean Doe Desire Justice Speech Social Justice Mere Occasions Opponents Gentleness Civility

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?”

Needs Looks May Doe Culture Challenges Justice Responsibility Air Behavior Messages Negative Social Justice Faults Seeking Cleaning Taking Responsibility Perpetuating

Author:Beverly Daniel Tatum

“The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; that he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

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