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Social Justice Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
- Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
- Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
- Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
- It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that…
- It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
- The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
- Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly…
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- 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
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- 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