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Social Justice Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
- Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
- Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. — Pearl Bailey
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams