“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.” ThinkingCountryFightingFatherSocialJusticePrinciplesDemocracyProudSixSocial JusticeJailHeritageGrandfatherExileMy GrandfatherFighting For Freedom Author:George Papandreou
“Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.” WantKidsFightingSocialSecurityProtectTigersSocial SecurityGrandkids Author:Claire McCaskill
“Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.” PeopleWantFightingWinningSocialPartyConservativeLibertarianFighterTeaEstablishmentTea Party Author:Lindsey Graham
“We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.” IfsShouldDreamRealityFightingLeftStrongSocialLibertyLeaderVisionMovementCivilizationStrongerFoundationRemainsGreenActivePursuitAppropriateAgendasSustainabilityCivil LibertiesMalta Author:Joseph Muscat
“Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally, that isn't a low-cost course of action for most boys. You avoid a physical beating, but you pay a real social and psychological cost for it. Those moments of walking away from fights, even though I knew it was the rational and civilized thing to do, cost me tremendously.” WayRealMomentsActionFightingCoursesFoundSocialPayBoysWalkingCostLowsRationalPsychologicalRanThings To DoCivilizedWalking Away Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.” MadeImportantStatesProblemPoliticalFightingSocialEconomicReadyArmyRussiaMessCombatTake TimeChechnya Author:Aslan Maskhadov
“Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.” PeopleWantJobsLawFightingSocialJusticeMillionsRightsFairsElectionSocial JusticeFundamentalsPressesRussiaLike MeRule Of LawNew JobFree PressFundamental Rights Author:Garry Kasparov
“The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.” PeopleWellsWarSeemsDiesFightingSocialLossFiveTenHundredLos AngelesConsensusAmmunitionSocial Service Author:Jeff Cooper
“Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.” MayWholeProblemHandsFightingSocialGoalReligiousFashionColdSolutionsStructureTerrorismComplainingTerroristDestroyedRemedyGrievanceSocial SystemsCold BloodedDemolition Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.” WantTwoReasonProblemFightingSocialSecurityBlameSpendingSocial SecurityCapsSurplus Author:Robert Reischauer
“Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.” IfsWantHumansImportantProblemFacesFightingSocialDifferencesHuman BeingsLevelsConflictBasesStressFellowsHappyBackgroundsNationalityBeing ThereSamenessWant To Be HappySocial StatusFamily Background Author:Dalai Lama
“The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.” KnowsWantMeanDoeWarWisdomLawFightingPoliticsNationsSocialJusticeEconomyDemocracyOughtPleaseInjusticeErasLiberalismTragicDivorcedAftermathFighting For FreedomSocial Injustice Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.” PeopleIfsWorldWantBelieveHumansUsePoliticalFightingEvilBeliefEnergySocialHalfMillionsGrowingMankindTerribleActivismGet UpHuman LifeCatastropheInactionInertiaChange For The BetterMusterSocial Evils Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.” ThinkingWayFirstsPersonsStillsBookUseHumanityFightingSocialResponsibilityKnownFeminismTruth IsCapacityIndependenceInjusticeFeministReactionsReviewsAppearingIndignitySocial InjusticeBook Review Author:Susan Faludi
“Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.” LongMomentsFightingSocialVoiceAttentionMediaCarTelevisionMessagesNewsRadioSocial MediaPocketsCyclesDesks Author:Joseph Prince
“Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.” DoeSeemsFightingFoundSocialLaughingFashionConversationShadowBlameRationalProtestPensGossipDespiseTopics Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.” PeopleDoeOrderFightingSocialBrotherArmsAngryMiseryConclusionFighterInevitableProtestRespondingOppressorsReformersSocial SystemsUnarmedGuerrillasIgnominyGuerrilla Warfare Book:Guerrilla Warfare Source: Guerrilla Warfare