“Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.” IdeasPoliticalTurnsSocialJusticeResponsibilityChristianityRightsBuddhismConcernedSocial JusticeIslamChristianity And Islam Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and are populated by the same people. The struggle has always been inner, and is played out in outer terrains. Awareness of our situation must come before inner changes, which in turn come before changes in society. Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.” PeopleWorldFirstsRealHappensTurnsCultureBlackSituationClassStruggleAwarenessDiversitySocial JusticeIndianImmigrantsReal WorldWorking ClassAsianLatinoAmerican IndianTerrainPsychChanges In Society Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.” IfsMenGivingShouldWritingMadeCountryStatesFactsTurnsDifficultFriendshipDifferencesMistakeBreakHistoryIgnoranceReaderDiversitySocial JusticeSakeCriticalContraryOur CountryPlentyPleasantGrantsHistorianHacks Author:Polybius
“When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead.” Has BeensAmericaTurnsCultureJusticeDiversityLaborSocial JusticeRadioJewLiedTurn-onPersecutedInsultedMistreated Author:Aime Cesaire
“We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.” IfsWellsStoriesTurnsCultureVoiceDifferencesJusticeListeningDiversitySocial Justice Author:Barbara Deming
“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.” HeartSpiritHateTurnsJusticePleasureVirtueFireLandDiversitySocial JusticeExcuseBigotryFamineMineralsPoisonousRankingPestilenceSpleen Author:William Hazlitt
“It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.” SeemsGovernmentTurnsJusticeAnimalMembersSocial JusticeResistanceBeastDesperateCriticizePreySuffrageMilitancy Author:Emmeline Pankhurst
“Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.” TurnsJusticeDemocracyPossibilityDiversitySocial JusticeInseparablePossibility Of Change Book:One Earth, Four Or Five Worlds: Reflections on Contemporary History Source: One Earth, Four Or Five Worlds: Reflections on Contemporary History
“We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.” WorldYearsIdeasWarPoliticalTurnsSocialWealthPerfectPoorCommonPrinciplesRichColdHundredYears AgoSocial JusticeInjusticeAccidentsSocialismOppressionOwnersWealthyGood IdeasExploitationUnfortunateCold WarWorld HistorySpoilMonstrousSpoiledCommon GoodFresh StartSocial SystemsPolitical Ideology Author:Leszek Kolakowski