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“South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Problem Seems Law Belief Social Pieces Solutions Concepts Machines Available Passing Passings Voting Coins Candy Social Change Social Problems Vending Machines

Author:John W. Gardner

“Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.”

“The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.”

Heart Two Problem Home Lying Social Parent Breakup Steady Decline Urgent Social Problems American Family Family Problems Parents Home

Author:David Popenoe

“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.”

“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.”

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Author:Rudolf Virchow

“Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.”

Problem Government Social Religious Successful Demand Taxes Evidence Program Dollars Guts Correcting Social Problems Nonprofits Faith Based Tax Dollars

Author:Ronald J. Sider

“Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.”

Problem Social Employment Social Problems Deviation

Author:Janet Yellen

“Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.”

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Author:David Brooks

“The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.”

“Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.”

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.”

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Author:Pauline Hanson

“Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.”

Problem Seems Energy Social Poverty Technology Disease Resources Method Bottom Solve Fuel Innovative Entrepreneurial Science And Technology Social Problems

Author:Vinod Khosla

“People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.”

People Ifs May Matter Problem Social Cases Issues Violence Position Keys Racism Sexism Vegan Educate Social Problems Principled Speciesism

Author:Gary L. Francione

“Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.”

Problem Force Social Powerful Business Company Practice Saws Impossible Example Demand Highest Concern Consumers Most Powerful Prosperous Integrating Social Problems

Author:Ben Cohen

“The solution of the social problem is in liberty.”

Problem Social Liberty Solutions Social Problems

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.”

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Author:Dan Pallotta

“Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men; where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the solutions we propose to our social problems.”

“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”

“My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.”

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Author:Jenni Rivera

“If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.”

“Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.”

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Author:Philip Slater

“Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.”

Doe Problem Social Poverty Social Problems

Author:Marco Rubio

“Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.”

Children Problem Social Growth Poverty Labor Population Unemployment Illiteracy Social Problems Population Growth Child Labor Child Labour Population Problem

Author:Kailash Satyarthi

“You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”

People Real Problem Would Be Past Certain Social Fantasy Defense Real Life Explicit Social Problems

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.”

Problem Social Moral Economic Prostitution Social Problems

Author:Federica Montseny

“When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.”

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Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.”

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Author:Eric Holder

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