“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.” YearsChildrenDifferentWantedMotherSocialGeniusYears AgoDoctorsBottomLawyerScalesCooksThirtyArchitect Author:Jacques Pepin
“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.” YearsSchoolSocialCitiesCareersStudyTeachingHigh SchoolYears AgoRetiredSocial StudiesInner CityYounger SisterTeaching History Author:Judy Woodruff
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.” ThinkingWayGivingYearsBelieveMeanPoliticalSocialTermPartyEconomicSeriousConflictYears AgoCrisisDevelopingRevolutionaryCapitalistSocialistStagnationSocialist Party Author:Anthony Crosland
“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it's tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it's still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?” YearsDoeStillsCountryProblemSeemsGovernmentAbleAmericaOpportunitySocialHundredYears AgoInequalityFiftyTragicEstablishmentShortcomingsFreedom Of ExpressionGreat CountrySocial Inequality Author:Golda Meir
“Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.” WorldYearsMayPersonsSaidSocialFamilyThousandYears AgoTwentiesWelfareThousand YearsUnits Author:Arthur Compton
“Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.” YearsFirstsHas BeensSocialThousandMessagesClothesSolutionsEvidenceYears AgoDirectTwentiesClothingsThousand YearsConveying Author:E. J. W. Barber