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“Perhaps more than never, in a highly globalized world, we must recognize that multiculturalism is not simply understanding ethnic/racial histories or the mere appreciation of cultural “difference,” but accepting that multiculturalism spreads across the very inner core of America’s institutions, and ingrained in the very essence of life, for multicultural perspectives, ideas, and ideologies empower us to elevate the multicultural discourse to a higher level of social transformation—ultimately, universal equality, justice, respect, and human dignity for all, in all facets of human existence.”

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Book:Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America
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“Buku ini mengungkapkan fakta-fakta yang sering dilupakan itu, kisah-kisah perlawanan yang dilakukan oleh rakyat awam, yang sering disepelekan sebagai ‘bukan siapa-siapa’ dan, karena itu, sering pula diabaikan dalam penulisan sejarah resmi atau dalam pemberitaan media arus utama. Pengabaian peran kaum jelata dalam penentuan arah sejarah inilah yang sering membuat kita keliru atau luput memahami fa’al (anatomi) yang sesungguhnya dari suatu proses perubahan.”

Social MovementsSocial Transformation
Book:Tindakan-tindakan Kecil Perlawanan: Bagaimana Keberanian, Ketegaran dan Kecerdikan Dapat Mengubah Dunia
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“Analisis sosial adalah cara untuk memulai sebuah penyelesaian masalah. Analisis sosial yang harus diutamakan adalah nalar dalam menganalisis sesuatu melalui data yang akurat, kekuatan argumentasi, pengetahuan, epistemologi, dan hal-hal mendasarnya. Hal itu semua membutuhkan dialog dengan berbagai kalangan yang menjadi pemangku kepentingan masalah tersebut untuk menemukan akar masalahnya.”

Public PolicyEpistemologySocial Transformation
Book:Mengubah Kebijakan Publik
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“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

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Author:Otto Scharmer
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“To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall
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“To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”

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Author:Antonin Scalia
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“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring
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“The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring
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“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.”

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Author:Hizkias Assefa
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“Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.”

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Author:Fredric Jameson
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