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“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.”

Doe Moving Certain Social Causes Levels Class Journey Degrees Distance Scales Enormous Colour Unexpected Transport Flavour

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Our vulnerability [to ressentiment] is unavoidable (and probably incurable) in a kind of society in which relative equality of political and other rights and formally acknowledged social equality go hand in hand with enormous differences in genuine power, possessions and education; a society in which everyone "has the right" to consider himself equal to everybody else, while in fact being unequal to them.”

Kind Facts Hands Political Social Differences Rights Equal Possession Genuine Enormous Vulnerability Relative Hand In Hand Social Equality

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.”

Has Beens Courses Social Company Economic Impact Workers Enormous Innovative Researchers

Author:Robert Hormats

“The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.”

Source: Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union

“No country has a perfect report card. While some countries have strong points in specific areas, they may have serious lacunae in other areas. For instance, some countries have made enormous progress on civil and political rights, but lag in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights.”

May Made Country Political Strong Social Perfect Rights Progress Economic Serious Areas Enormous Cards Instance Reports Implementation Lag Political Rights Report Cards

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.”

Source: Sexual Politics

“Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.”

Thinking Wells Bigs Order Social Leader Plans Profit Enormous Corporations Lasting Leap Social Change Private Sector Own Business Business Plan

Author:Darren Walker