The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary…

“One must not confuse - as one often does - what one wants for himself and what those around him and close to him…

— باسم صبرى - إيلوثيريا Eleutheria - Bassem Sabry

Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction…

— James Hillman

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will…

— John Mason Brown

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the…

— Edmund White

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

— Avery Bradley

Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped…

— Lauren Beukes

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

— Colin Powell

A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean…

— Petra Kelly

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social…

— John Grisham

“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical,…

— John Stuart Mill

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I…

— Barney Frank

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the need for…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets…

— John Stott

“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.”

— Cornel West