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Social Justice Quotes by Maya Angelou
- There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American…
- We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people…
- The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to…
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
- If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother…
More Social Justice Quotes
- 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