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“All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.”

Knows Wells Persons Social Justice Existence Aim Social Justice Balanced Principal

Book:Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

“To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.”

Thinking Culture Justice Existence Diversity Conscious Social Justice Nicomachean Ethics

Author:Aristotle

“It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.”

People Knows Made Matter Hard Culture Heaven Justice Existence Gratitude Diversity Survival Performances Social Justice Graves Tolerable

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.”

Culture Belief Justice Race Existence Special Pure Members Diversity Eternal Social Justice Myth Inferiority Endowment

Book:Race and Democratic Society

Source: Race and Democratic Society

“Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.”

Shows Action Hate Culture Justice Existence Demand Behavior Diversity Social Justice Discrimination Appropriate Lynching

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.”

World Humans Stills Two Desire Justice Existence Progress Social Justice Reform Engines Human Society Coexistence

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.”

“I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.”

Way Long I Can Motivational Easy Justice Existence Ambition Diversity Social Justice Personal Growth Strive Philanthropy Something Better My Ambition Clearing Goals And Ambitions Ambitious Goals

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more