Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is…

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but…

— Chris Hayes

“Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules,…

— Erik Pevernagie

We need a more widely shared burden on the part of society to keep asking, "What are our collective values, what kind of world…

— Sheila Jasanoff

“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over…

— Grant H. Kester

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative…

— John Dewey

“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize…

— Lewis Thomas

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The Financial Services Racial Equity, Inclusion, Economic Justice Act includes my bipartisan bill, the Promoting New and Diverse Depository Institutions Act... My bill will…

— Jake Auchincloss

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As a poor person and someone who now writes extensively about social and economic justice, I've often noticed a lack of a focus on…

— Stephanie Land

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista…

— Bianca Jagger

My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be…

— Chiang Kai-shek

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who…

— Marian Wright Edelman