Blues Quote by Sixto Rodriguez

“When I started doing community organizing in Boston's neighborhoods, working on all the issues that had affected my family - violence, poverty, guns -…

— Michael Patrick MacDonald

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

— Patricia Piccinini

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a…

— Daniel Yankelovich

“the evening crowd on University Avenue appeared to be living in an earlier American era, one lacking desperation, hysteria, and Fox News.”

— Robert Atwan

“Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive…

— Steven Millhauser

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In…

— Thomas Sowell

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.

— Geoff Mulgan

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem…

— Jonathan Dee

“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with…

— J.G. Ballard

“people who wanted to change America back to how it used to be. Not an America with the segregation that was part of the…

— Mike Foster

“Social realities that may have appeared inalterable, impenetrable, came to be viewed as malleable and transformable; and people learned how to imagine what it…

— Angela Davis

“Opportunists prosper in the atmosphere of crisis, although fittingly even they are sometimes undone by their own scheming,”

— David Bevington