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“It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Feelings Might School Form Joy Fall Justice Taught Sorrow Mouths Social Justice Wide Public School Pipe Englishmen Great Joy

Author:E. M. Forster

“They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who's getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't know how to promote homosexuality.”

“Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.”

Ifs Persons Culture Courses Justice Diversity Social Justice Objectives Almighty Almighty God

Author:Antonia Fraser

“We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.”

Ifs Men May Care Culture Asks Justice Cases Path Sea Office Diversity Social Justice Ask Me Thrown Barriers Captains Arbitrary

Author:Margaret Fuller

“I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.”

Ifs Justice Garden Social Justice Save Me

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.”

Ifs Country Justice Effects Racism Social Justice Intention Genocide

Author:John Howard Griffin

“If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.”

Ifs Men World Enough Play Games Justice White Diversity Social Justice Indian White Man

Book:The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

Source: The Jailing of Cecelia Capture

“If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.”

Source: Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God

“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.”

Ifs Facts Would Be Christian Remember Jesus Justice Diversity Ordinary Social Justice Historical Jew Dislike Awkward Anti Semitism Historical Facts

Author:John Haynes Holmes

“The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Kids Born Justice Higher Diversity Social Justice Income Sat Score Boots Variables Sat Scores

Author:Paul Houston

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say to him, "No, my horses suit me; I will not sell them." Then he goes to my neighbor and says to him, "Joseph has some good horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell." My neighbor answers, "Pay me the money and I will sell you Joseph's horses." The white man returns to me and says, "Joseph, I have bought your horses and you must let me have them." If we sold our lands to the government, this is the way they bought them.”

“What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!”

Ifs Thinking Would Be America Justice Color Diversity Social Justice Suits Conformity Gray Graveyard Tiresome Flannels

Author:John Oliver Killens

“Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.”

Ifs Men Humans Justice Race Diversity Social Justice Western Human Race

Author:John Oliver Killens

“More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.”

Ifs Mean Children School Reading Nations Justice Deals Education Diversity Social Justice Suicide Prison Inequality Description More Money Bent Literacy

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.”

Ifs Ends Justice Teach Practice Successful Teacher Diversity Racism Social Justice

Author:Max Lerner

“If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.”

Ifs Pain Dies Social Justice Air Diversity Social Justice Protest

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.”

Ifs Children Black Justice Diversity Mouths Female Social Justice Males Racist Dragons Suicidal Sexist Females And Males

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.”

Ifs Knows Wish Justice Diversity Social Justice Injustice Pursue

Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos

“Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.”

Ifs Years Said Country Justice Opinion Years Ago Social Justice Pot Melting Melting Pot Afros

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.”

Ifs Justice Poor Sweet Diversity Social Justice Substitutes Cake Chivalry Icing Icing On The Cake

Book:In Times Like These

Source: In Times Like These

“Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.”

Ifs Years Firsts Choices Left Given Justice Chance Diversity Social Justice Chosen African American Colony Given A Chance Mayflower Jamestown

Book:Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

Source: Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

“Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.”

Ifs Thinking Way Has Beens Made Seems Past Justice Diversity Tradition Social Justice Historical Feminist Sporadic

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?”

People Ifs Should Humans Helping Humanity Justice Human Beings Race Education Class Diversity Survival Bigger Social Justice Salary What Is Education

Author:Beah Richards

“The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.”

Ifs Humanity Justice Greater Doors Diversity Difficulty Social Justice Deny Favors

Book:The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

Source: The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses

“Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.”

“There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.”

Ifs States Body Justice Alive Diversity Social Justice Conviction Representatives Clash Cauldrons

Author:Sukarno

“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 not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”

“Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”

Ifs Men Justice Diversity Social Justice

Author:Jean Toomer

“You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.”

Ifs Want Hate Justice Becoming Diversity Social Justice Mere Discrimination Save Yourself Good Nature

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.”

Ifs Children Has Beens Enough Home Justice Liberty Land Diversity Social Justice Brave Foolish Oppressed Cradle Asylums Land Of The Free

Book:The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His

Source: The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His

“Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.”

Ifs Justice Rights Equal Diversity Social Justice Instruction Equal Rights

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.”

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.”

Ifs World May Action Fighting Winning Social Loses Justice Struggle Social Justice Win Or Lose

Author:Howard Zinn

“If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.”

Ifs Sex Justice Roles Movement Thousand Percent Social Justice Blame Divorce Obsolete Happy Divorce Marriage Divorce Feminine Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?”

Ifs Heart Choices Justice Gay Social Justice Oppression Tolerate

Author:June Jordan

“In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can only be achieved if the speaker who has dominated speaks less and listens more.”

Ifs America Culture Speak Justice White Century Balance Conversation Diversity Social Justice Realms Speakers One Sided Speak Less

Author:David Mura

“If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.”

Source: The Self-Aware Universe

“People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.”

“Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”

“The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.”

Ifs Real Stories Culture Peace Attention Opinion Our Lives Diversity Social Justice Careful Life Story Another Life Commonality

Author:Barbara Deming

“History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.”

Ifs Matter Able Faces Justice Happened Century Social Justice Telling The Truth Our Future Doomed

Book:The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege

Source: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege

“You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.”

People Ifs Firsts Hard Justice White Social Justice Obligation Contact Racist Organize

Author:Tim Wise

“People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.”

People Ifs Children Long Matter Choices Justice Color Depends Survival Racism Social Justice Everyday My Children My Future

Author:Tim Wise

“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.”

“I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.”

“The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.”

Ifs Should Mean Eye Lying Hate Justice Path And Love Social Justice Saint Connected Neighbor God Love Encounters Closing Hate Him Unbreakable God And Love Unbreakable Bonds

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.”

Ifs Giving Father Church Justice Poor Century Treats Thirds Social Justice Passages Marxist Church Fathers

Author:Pope Francis

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