“I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.” PeopleBelieveHumansHelpingI BelieveSocialHuman NatureDimensionsOccupationOrganizePrivileged Author:Xanana Gusmao
“The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.” HumansMayMadeSelfProblemGovernmentActionSocialCommunitySelf LoveInstitutionsOperationsOrganizeLegislationSocial Action Author:John Quincy Adams
“As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the spirit in permanent tension with the world than a respectable distraction from the sourness of life.” WorldDoeSpiritForceSocialAtheismWorshipModelsAppealsPermanentTensionDependentDistractionRhetoricSensibilityOrganizeRespectablePietyVariablesRevitalization Author:C. Wright Mills
“The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.” IndividualSocialGroupsIntentionPrivilegePortionsOrganizePretension Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.” HumansMatterSpiritualJoySocialSidesWealthJusticeAdviceMaterialsPersonalityBattleFinalsHave FaithEducateOrganizeFaith In YourselfHuman PersonalityAgitateFinal WordsHave Faith In YourselfWords Of AdviceReclamation Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.” PeopleIfsMenShouldBelieveHumansTwoStatesReasonActionIndividualSocialDifferencesHuman BeingsProgressMen And WomenInstrumentsStriveDeterminedRationalOrganizeDesirableParadigmPredictableTransitorySocial ProgressIndividual Differences Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.