Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
“We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday. — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth....… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water,… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
