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“Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.”

Individual Social Situation Society Dating Trials Treated Looking Good Jury Looking For Love Homely Trial By Jury

Author:Martha Beck

“The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole.”

Should Humans Whole Individual Situation Rights Society Development Evolution Aim Human Rights Human Development Individual Rights

Author:Kofi Annan

“Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women, as facts of society made by human beings, and not as natural or god-given, therefore unchangeable, permanent, irreversible.”

Source: The Edward Said Reader

“A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.”

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Author:Marlo Thomas

“I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.”

“Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.”

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Book:Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

Source: Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment

“Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion themselves, to change their live, is given ideological priority over the relation within which they themselves are actually formed, situated, and sustained.”

“A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.”

Men Situation Society Faults Public Life

Author:Charles Dickens

“Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic action of ritual, but in the concrete theater of society at large.”

People Able Action Situation Fantasy Society Discipline Theater Ritual Concrete Sociology Symbolic Anthropology

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic