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“Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”

Men Feels Made Suffering Culture Women Enemy Feminism Bears Diversity Fellows Victim Social Justice Masculine Inadequate Mystique

Author:Betty Friedan

“The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.”

Men Real Culture Justice White Diversity Weakness Victim Social Justice Myth Bigotry Superiority White Man

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.”

People Black Justice White Products Victim Social Justice Racist

Book:Unbought and Unbossed

Source: Unbought and Unbossed

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”

Years Culture Justice Answers Diversity Victim Social Justice Constant Slave Injustice Cruelty Celebration Fourth Gross July Abolition Days Of The Year

Author:Frederick Douglass

“Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.”

Culture Justice Silence Diversity Victim Social Justice Illness Mortals Harvest Silence Is

Book:The Little Virtues

Source: The Little Virtues

“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.”

Humans Hands Speak Nations Justice Enemy Brother Diversity Weak Victim Social Justice Documents Brothers And Sisters Voiceless Breaking Silence Human Hands

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.”

Mind Soul Inspiration Justice Race Higher Hatred Victim Social Justice Poison Faculty Unfortunate Chill Viruses Freeze

Book:Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

“Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.”

Shows Seems Justice Race Taken Week Diversity Prejudice Victim Social Justice Cruelty Awful Fallen Outrage Sinning Afros

Author:William Wells Brown

“The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.”

Political Culture Social Justice Dark Economic Subjects Masters Diversity Victim Social Justice Guilt Greed Educational Cruelty Ghetto Colony Insensitivity

Book:Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

Source: Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

“Global warming is a justice issue. It's a justice issue because global warming is theft - theft from our own children and grand children, of their right to a livable future. It's a justice issue, because its victims are, and will be, disproportionately poor and of color, those least able to contend with or to flee, the storms, droughts, famines, and rising tides of global warming.”

Children Able Justice Poor Issues Color Victim Social Justice Storm Rising Global Warming Tides Theft Famine Drought

Author:Fred Small