“I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.” MenFeelsStillsI CanWould BeSocialTermJusticeFellowsSocial JusticeAshamedSpeakersFellow Man Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” PeopleIfsWould BeLiteratureInspiringFantasyAlivePersonalityDiversitySocial JusticeBeing YourselfBlack WomenBlack HistoryBlack Women InspirationalFemale WritersBlack MotivationalDefining Myself Author:Audre Lorde
“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.” IfsGivingWellsIdeasWould BeMotherCultureAsksFatherSonBrotherLoversDiversityDaughterSocial JusticeStrangerLiftsIf I CouldBrothers And SistersLiftingMother And FatherMother And DaughterFather And SonDaughter To Father Author:Maya Angelou
“The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.” ImportantWould BeCultureJusticeEmotionEmotionalDiversityCapableSocial JusticeImportant ThingsSorryLimitation Author:Andre Gide
“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.” IfsFactsWould BeChristianRememberJesusJusticeDiversityOrdinarySocial JusticeHistoricalJewDislikeAwkwardAnti SemitismHistorical Facts Author:John Haynes Holmes
“What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!” IfsThinkingWould BeAmericaJusticeColorDiversitySocial JusticeSuitsConformityGrayGraveyardTiresomeFlannels Author:John Oliver Killens
“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.” IfsWorldIdeasWould BeBlackDifferencesJusticeWhitePerfectImagineRepublicanGayEqualDiversitySocial JusticeDemocratBoringToleranceTallBrotherhoodAppreciatedUnity In DiversityA Perfect WorldBlack WhiteBoring Life Author:Barbra Streisand
“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.” FeelsReasonWould BeCareJusticeOpinionSorrowDiversityWeaknessTasksSocial JusticeEndlessVarietyCharmPrevailingMeanness Author:Mary Wollstonecraft
“Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.” WellsWould BeNationsSocialJusticeRecordsEconomicSocial JusticeApplicationJudgedEfficiencyLoanEconomic Efficiency Author:Lewis Thompson Preston
“People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.” PeopleIfsDoneMomentsFeelingsWould BeFightingEnergyStrongSocialHurtJusticeCommitmentCapacityBraverySocial JusticeDancingCarefulFeel GoodOur TimeFishingSwimmingWakingBe CarefulBowlingRedundantWaveringPersonal Strength Author:Tim Wise
“I don’t mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn’t a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.” IfsMindWould BeSocialSidesJusticeOpinionGrewGrew UpUnderstoodSocial JusticeInjusticeObligationHouseholdOppressedSpeaking OutMistreated Author:Tayari Jones