“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.” MenNeedsCharacterSpiritualLyingSocialJusticeAbilityMoralCreativeOur LivesSocial JusticeInstrumentsMissilesMisguidedMisuseSpiritual PowerOutrunLiving A LiePersonal Character Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Education Secretary Arne Duncan spurned the opportunity to condemn thousands of Wisconsin public school teachers for lying about being 'sick' and shutting down at least eight school districts across the state to attend capitol protests (many of whom dragged their students on a social justice field trip with them). Instead, Duncan defended teachers for 'doing probably the most important work in society.' Only striking government teachers could win federal praise for not doing their jobs.” ImportantStatesGovernmentSchoolJobsLyingOpportunityWinningSocialJusticeTeacherFieldsStudentsSickPraiseSocial JusticeEightProtestSecretaryPublic SchoolCapitolWisconsinSchool TeachersImportant WorkDuncanBeing SickSchool DistrictsShutting DownField Trip Author:Michelle Malkin
“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.” KnowsMenLittlesAgeLyingCultureBlackPoorPovertyKnowledgeDiversityTragedySocial JusticeIgnorantWickedBlack History Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.” BelieveHumansDoneChristianLyingValuesCultureBornJusticeCitizensDiversitySocial JusticeWorthyFree SocietyBorn Free Author:James A. Baldwin
“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.” PeopleKnowsLooksChildrenStillsI CanDreamEyeAgeBeautifulYoungLyingCultureJusticeSawsDiversityDiedSocial JusticeOld AgeHillsBuriedNative AmericanBloodyMudCrookedNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomBlizzardNative American DreamBeautiful DreamsWounded Knee Author:Black Elk
“Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.” ShouldChildrenAgeSchoolLyingSufferingCultureJusticeTroubleJudgingDiversitySocial JusticeCuriosityAverageFifteenElevenParalysisSuspensionAtrophy Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.” LooksLyingJusticeDiversityPrejudiceSocial Justice Author:Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes
“Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.” WayLooksLyingDifferencesJusticeDiversitySocial JusticeSlaveryBitterChainsYour Freedom Author:John Oliver Killens
“We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.” MenWorldLittlesAmericaLyingBlackJusticeWhiteMillionsDiversitySocial JusticeWhite Lie Author:John Oliver Killens
“This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.” CountryHomeLyingFatherBornJusticeDiversityDiedSocial JusticeBonesOur CountrySoilOur Father Author:Paul Robeson
“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.” IfsShouldMeanEyeLyingHateJusticePathAnd LoveSocial JusticeSaintConnectedNeighborGod LoveEncountersClosingHate HimUnbreakableGod And LoveUnbreakable Bonds Author:Pope Benedict XVI