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Social Quotes by Bell Hooks
- ...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.
- Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater…
- The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
- All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing…
- Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated…
- There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts…
- Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
- Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,…
- You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
More Social Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet