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“The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.”

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Author:Hu Shih

“We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.”

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Author:John Oliver Killens

“The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.”

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Author:Dilys Laing

“There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.”

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Book:Essays of Montaigne

Source: Essays of Montaigne

“The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.”

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Author:Lucretia Mott

“I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.”

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Author:Richard Rumbold

“The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.”

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Author:Dorothee Solle

“Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“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.”

“Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.”

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Book:The Way of Perfection

Source: The Way of Perfection

“In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.”

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Book:Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

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Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I want the famous to be inspiring; their lives an example of what every human being has it in them to do - act from love!”

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Author:Patch Adams

“...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.”

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Book:Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

“So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“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.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity”

“I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.”

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Author:Julian Bond

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”

“The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.”

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Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.”

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Author:Joseph Brant

“Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.”

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Author:Luther Standing Bear

“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

“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.”

“To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.”

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Author:Alberto Korda

“Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life. Every tradition on which we draw teaches that the ultimate expression of our spirituality is our action. Deep spirituality leads to action in the world. A deep reverence for life, love of nature's complex beauty and sense of intimate connection with the cosmos leads inevitably to a commitment to work for environmental and social justice.”

“The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.”

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Author:Stephane Dion

“To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.”

Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

“We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.”

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Author:Claudio Hummes

“His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.”

“To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!”

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Book:The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“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.”

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