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“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

Interest Freedom Rights Dangerous Identity Highest Spring Social Justice Blow Equality Neighbor Civil Rights 1960s Equality Of People Equality For All Freedom And Equality Human Equality Fairness And Equality

Book:Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

“Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.”

Trying Culture Justice Identity Integrity Elements Diversity Social Justice Aliens Borders Swim Multiple Shifting Margins Living On Multiple Identities

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.”

Culture Justice Loss Pay Identity Diversity Social Justice Indivisible Dehumanization

Author:James A. Baldwin

“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That's how the country was settled.”

“Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.”

Political Culture Process Community Justice Support Movement Identity Diversity Social Justice Visuals Visible

Author:Joan E. Biren

“Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.”

Culture Individual Justice Identity Diversity Draws Social Justice Species Rounds Individuality Circles Preserves Boiling Chalk

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose native land you take. It is their past as well, their roots and their identity. If you take away the things that they have been used to see and will be expecting to see, you may, in a way, as well take their eyes.”

People Ifs Way Wells May Has Beens Eye Past Used Culture Justice Land Identity Diversity Roots Social Justice Native Expecting Native Land

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.”

Difficult Challenges Justice White Achieve Identity Humility Social Justice Vulnerability Exposing Autonomous Difficult Challenges Racial Identity

Book:Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action

Source: Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and their Paths to Action

“DNA reveals plenty about the apes, but nothing about the human. Government IDs identify slaves, but not a civilized citizen.”

Character Humanity Democracy Human Nature Identity Social Justice Humanitarian Nationalism Humanist Heritage

Book:Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Storytelling isn’t a luxury. It’s how we decide who gets to be human.”

Humanity Power Identity Social Justice Storytelling Narrative Inclusion Representation Dehumanization Media Literacy

Author:Lawrence Nault

“I couldn't help concluding that disabled people with adequate resources and support are, as a group, particularly equipped to weather the adjustment to parenthood. Physical weakness and change do not scare us as they do others. We have spent years decoupling joy from physical or mental function.”

Care Identity Social Justice Motherhood Parenthood Disability Ableism Reproductive Justice Body Politics Disabled Parents

Book:Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

Source: Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World

“Conscience is my constitution, Compassion is my culture, Character is my government. I don't need any second hand constitution, second hand culture, second hand government.”

Identity Conscience Social Justice Accountability Humanist Self Determination Freethinker Freethought Civic Duty Social Programming

Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch