Best social-justice & knows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”

Knows Self Wisdom Mother Culture Diversity Social Justice Characteristics Atoms Self Knowledge Subtlety Incumbents Minutiae

Author:Khalil Gibran

“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“[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

“As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.”

“Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.”

People Knows Stories Social Justice Groups Movement Sitting Social Justice Discovering Life Story Small Groups

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.”

People Knows Trying Happens Care Wanted Form Social Justice Social Justice Socialism Health Care Constructs

Author:Assata Shakur

“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.”

Thinking Knows Hard Seems Black Justice Cities Streets Land Diversity Social Justice Folks Stranger Granted Each Day Suspects Farms Pavement City Streets

Author:Richard Wright

“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.”

Knows Want Art Philosophy History Diversity Social Justice Crucial

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“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

“The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.”

“One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.”

“Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.”

Knows Way Long Culture Games Social Justice Levels Path Cost Conflict Equal Social Justice Stakes Nonviolence Involvement

Author:Martin Sheen

“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.”

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

Knows Men Black Race Gone Diversity Social Justice Minorities

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

Knows Men Littles Age Lying Culture Black Poor Poverty Knowledge Diversity Tragedy Social Justice Ignorant Wicked Black History

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”

Knows World Matter Social Justice What Matters

Author:Frantz Fanon

“They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.”

Ifs Knows Giving Years Wells May Said Whole Used Culture Women Justice Diversity Social Justice International Decades Behave International Women's Day

Author:Bella Abzug

“I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.”

Knows Needs Trying I Can Culture Justice Diversity Social Justice

Author:Muhammad Ali

“People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Religion Fear Enjoy Justice Responsibility Atheism Social Justice Rage Spares Taking Responsibility Ordeals

Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“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

“What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.”

Source: Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents

“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”

“I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to a lot of people's rules on this sort of thing. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other-a world that doesn't bother to tell us exactly what one or the other is.”

People Knows Men World Culture Justice Clear Trouble Diversity Social Justice Conclusion Bother

Book:Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

“We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.”

Knows Men World Culture Justice Military Honor Diversity Social Justice Killing Priorities Medal Another Man Discharge Dishonorable Medal Of Honor

Author:Charlotte Bunch

“I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Ideas Bigs Culture Justice Simple Diversity Understood Weakness Social Justice Familiar Not Interested Big Ideas Simple Ways

Author:Lucille Clifton

“...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.”

Knows Humans Goal Justice Capacity Social Justice Educated Liberation Enabling

Author:Hillary Clinton

“You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.”

Knows Culture Asks Speak Justice College Diversity Mouths Social Justice Degrade

Book:Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“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.”

“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?”

Knows Justice Social Justice

Book:It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement

Source: It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement

“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

“We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.”

Knows Justice Pay Honest Diversity Social Justice Being Honest Acquire Shortcomings Pupils Cohesion

Book:Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

“Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.”

Knows Want Justice Ignorance Diversity Social Justice Investing Ignorant Blissful Ignorance

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.”

People Knows Country Justice White Diversity Social Justice

Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.”

Knows Men Doe Able Justice One Thing Diversity Social Justice Live By

Book:Dubin's Lives: A Novel

Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel

“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

“What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack.”

Knows Men Want Children Doe Enough Grows Justice Race Class Color Diversity Social Justice Sovereign Bankers Pennies Groove Racks Flipped Predestined Soon Enough Race And Color

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.”

Knows Justice Color Hair Listening Diversity Mouths Skins Social Justice Spread Kink I Am The Best

Author:Leontyne Price

“Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.”

“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”

Knows Individual Justice Groups Diversity Unique Social Justice Representatives Unique Individuals

Book:You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

Source: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

“We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.”

Knows Children Ends Justice Diversity Racism Abuse Social Justice Bigotry Sexism Denied Child Abuse Homophobia

Author:Urvashi Vaid

“It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.”

Knows Done Care Spiritual Differences Justice Planets Essentials Diversity Social Justice Take Care Change Yourself

Author:Alice Walker

“Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.”

Knows Giving Justice Habit Civilization Diversity Social Justice Charity Wages Damnation Alms

Author:Rebecca West

“Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.”

Knows Truth Justice Color Diversity Social Justice African American Appeals

Book:What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard

Source: What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard

“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

“Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).”

Source: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

“He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.”

Knows Men Writing Culture Literature Diversity Social Justice Profound Ignorant Self Knowledge Lectures

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

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