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“To be social is to be forgiving.”

Social Society Forgiveness Forgiving Injustice

Book:The Letters of Robert Frost

Source: The Letters of Robert Frost

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”

Mind Humans Political Politics Social Religious Society Claims Injustice Human Mind Divided Human Society Social Service

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”

“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.”

“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.”

Knows Humans Able Social Can Do Society Identity Behavior Normal Anger Injustice Spite Human Society Social Behavior

Book:Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

Source: Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics

“People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.”

People Social Society Anger Injustice Behave Permit Norm Social Norms

Author:Max Cannon

“We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.”

Humans Fighting Justice Rights Society Design Building Integrity Equal Injustice Human Rights Equality Unjust Stopping Equal Rights Systemic Change Equal Justice

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.”

Ifs Men Way Humans Persons Might Law Fall Natural Taken Violence Society Authority Injustice Innocent Wicked Exposed Human Society Innocent Person

Book:Discourses on Government

Source: Discourses on Government

“Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality. It quietly aligns with power rather than principle. Moral courage often begins with the refusal to look away.”

Justice Responsibility Courage Society Morality Ethics Conscience Injustice

Author:Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.”

People Life God Light Knowledge Darkness Power Society Danger Position Ignorance Mountain Destruction Injustice Oppression Accountability Ungodliness

Book:The Mountain of Ignorance

Source: The Mountain of Ignorance