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“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

“It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.”

Should Past Evil Justice Diversity Argument Social Justice Persuasive

Author:William H. Hastie

“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.”

Men Long Hands Christian America Past Black Justice Doors Diversity Social Justice Spoons Back Doors

Author:Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.”

America Past Justice Pay Diversity Social Justice Ugly Debt Persist Forgetfulness Cloaks Misdeeds

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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

“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.”

Hands Past Social Growth Differences Justice Influence Planets Resources Social Justice Terror Corruption Equity Bystanders

Author:James Wolfensohn

“Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice”

Giving Past Social Justice Building Social Justice Injustice Practicals Recognition

Author:Nelson Mandela