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  • Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

  • The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

    "Society and Civilization". American Review, July 1845.
  • You only need a heart full of grace

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press
  • Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

    Giving Up   Hero   People  
  • I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

    Action   Social   Robbing  
  • Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

  • Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

    Christian   Real   Godly  
  • I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

    Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press
  • [The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that.

    "Interview: Pico Iyer". Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, LA Yoga Magazine: May 2008: Volume 7/No. 5, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.
  • I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.

    "On the Democratic Idea in America". Book by Irving Kristol, 1972.
  • The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

  • [Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

    "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.
  • To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

    Years   Cities   Bishops  
    John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”
  • Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

    Kings   Stars   Hate  
    "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.
  • Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

    Wish   Way   Action  
  • For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.

  • The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.

  • As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  • Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

    Book   Writing   Kids  
  • The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."

    "Vaclav Havel's Dissident Criticism" by Peter Lawler, bigthink.com.
  • The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.

    Soul   Church   Action  
  • Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  • Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  • Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

    Wisdom   Peace   Kings  
    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963
  • Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

    "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.
  • For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

    Country   Ghetto   Simple  
  • I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

    Pain   Revenge   Struggle  
    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

  • In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.

    Action   Social   Judaism  
  • I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.

    Cheer   Singing   Groups  
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