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“Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”

Men Feels Made Suffering Culture Women Enemy Feminism Bears Diversity Fellows Victim Social Justice Masculine Inadequate Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.”

People Knows Want Needs Use Home Values Individual Social Justice Enemy Class Social Justice Greed Elites Ruling Surplus

Author:Michael Parenti

“Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.”

Culture Justice Secret Enemy Diversity Social Justice Southern Oppressors Persecuted

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.”

“Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.”

Language Justice Consciousness Enemy Successful Our Lives Share Revolution Diversity Social Justice Allies Good Poetry

Author:June Jordan

“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.”

Humans Hands Speak Nations Justice Enemy Brother Diversity Weak Victim Social Justice Documents Brothers And Sisters Voiceless Breaking Silence Human Hands

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.”

Justice Enemy Greater Progress Habit Diversity Social Justice Appearance

Author:Jose Marti

“The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.”

Ideas Spirit Justice Enemy Plans Diversity Prejudice Social Justice Obsession Chiefs Alternatives New Ideas Inability Ideological

Author:Lewis Mumford

“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”

Force Justice Enemy Diversity Social Justice Injustice Privilege Oppression Revolutionary True Religion

Author:Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”