Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his… — Joseph Brant Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish… — Ten Bears Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I want to live in a world where people become famous because of their work for peace and justice and care. I… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously -… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these… — Leila Fadel Copy Share Image
“Economics is the art of allocating scarce goods among competing demands. The conceit of Marxism was the thought that in Communism, economics… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“Obama sees history in the same postmodernist fashion in which he looks upon his own past — details are constructed by everyone,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford gave that idea popular currency when he brought out the famous Model T car and announced in 1914 that he… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Above all, the new Left-- and its overwhelmingly youthful constituency -- rejected the inherited collectivism of its predecessor. To an earlier generation… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
“They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Seek yourself in the joy of neighbors, You shall know the meaning of justice. Seek yourself in smiles of the world, You… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
