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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one… — Mikhail Bakunin
Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual… — John Conyers
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very… — Sri Aurobindo
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary… — Alain LeRoy Locke
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. — Audre Lorde
I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether. — Clare Boothe Luce
When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic,… — Malcolm X
People create social conditions and people can change them. — Unknown Author
Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be… — Edward Said
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere… — Rebecca West
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive… — Mahnaz Afkhami
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about… — Hizkias Assefa
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins
...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work. — Paul Farmer
The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents. — Helen LaKelly Hunt
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice. — Kim Dae-jung
Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm… — Dennis Kucinich
Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our… — Unknown Author
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform… — Jonathan Schell
Many folks have asked me, 'How do you do it and why have you sacrificed so much to do this work?' The answer comes easy.… — Lateefah Simon
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently,… — Emile Durkheim
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices… — Paulo Freire

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