“One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.” PeopleFacesSocialJusticeIssuesRightsParticularBirthConcernSocial JusticeDivorceCivil RightsAbortionBirth ControlRemarriage Author:William P. Leahy
“Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.” YearsBelieveGovernmentNationsSocialAchieveSecurityBirthRepublicanProgramFaultsClintonCurrentsProsperityDuesYesterdayChecksPrivilegedSocial SecurityGasolineGovernment ProgramsGasoline Prices Author:Ann Richards
“The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.” ChildrenMomentsFatherSocialMoralBabyBirthGainsLaborAimStrikesImpulseAwakeMotiveStrokes Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems
“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.” ShouldLooksKindFactsMotherGirlSocialCausesBirthDiseaseShadowAcknowledgeHypocrisyEnlightenedFacts Of LifeBirth ControlImpunityUnmarried Book:A Matter of Life and Death Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.” PeopleWayGivingActionGivenSocialProcessSimplePowerfulCommonGroupsShareBirthConversationConcernSignificantLife ChangingSocial ChangeInitiateProcess Of Change Author:Margaret J. Wheatley
“The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.” MenGivingDoeFormEvilSocialBirthEternalApproachFellowsInjusticeInequalityCommunismExploitationTravelerSocial InjusticeFellow Travelers Author:Alexander Zinoviev