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“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 place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”

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Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

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Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.”

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Author:John Dewey

“They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.”

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Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.”

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Author:Frances Harper

“The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.”

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Author:Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“I have lived in the redness of the stones that mark a path through my blood; I am the descendant of a forgotten race, but I carry in my hands the remnants of their fire.”

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Author:Mohammed Khair-Eddine

“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.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!”

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Book:Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal

“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.”

“Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.”

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Author:Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“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

“The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.”

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Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.”