Community Quote by David Lammy Download Open image “People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.” — David Lammy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Least Likely Respect People People Stake Respect Society Society Likely Stake Society Who
It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest. — Roger Mahony Copy Share Image
Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place. — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves. — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Respect is for the people who deserves it, not the people who demand it. — Zhi Shuen Copy Share Image
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It is my experience that people who don't participate in society, who don't have jobs, who don't have friends, are just very stuck in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
For me, a hoodie is like a pair of slippers or pyjamas - something comfortable and well-worn that you can wear unthinkingly. Unless, of… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Edgy' music has always formed the cornerstone to any teenage rebellion. Most indulge in it precisely because adults like me don't like them doing… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge those who… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates.… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image