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  • No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

    People   Justice   World  
  • I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

  • We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  • The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

    Country   White   People  
    James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.10, Courier Corporation
  • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

    My Religion (1927) ch. 6
  • Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being man. I cannot disassociate myself from the future that is proposed for my brother.

    Brother   Men   White  
  • Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

    Safety   Justice   Motto  
  • Accomplishments have no color.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

    Peace   Real   Diversity  
  • Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

    Twitter post from May 26, 2010
  • People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If we spent all of our waking moments in that place, then fighting for social justice would be redundant; we would simply have social justice and be done with it, and we could all go swimming, or fishing, or bowling, or dancing, or whatever people do. But it is because we spend so much of our time in that other place, that place of diminished capacity, of flagging energy, or wavering and somewhat flaccid commitment, that we have to be careful.

  • I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.

    Writing   Simple   Ideas  
  • Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

    Smile   Class   Diversity  
  • Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

  • There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

    Two   Hair   Justice  
    Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.922, Xist Publishing
  • In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

    Moving   Men   Justice  
  • 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 in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

    Country   Real   Thinking  
  • Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.

  • No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

    Race and Democratic Society ch. 7 (1945)
  • We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

    Men   Rights   Justice  
    Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.102, Chicago Review Press
  • We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

    Men   Sea   Justice  
    "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women". Essay by Margaret Fuller, first published in The Dial Magazine, Volume IV, archive.vcu.edu. July 1843.
  • Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

    Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.8, Harvard University Press
  • The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

    1990 The Beauty Myth, ch.1, 'The Beauty Myth'.
  • Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

    Home   Tired   Heart  
  • Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

  • When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

    Peace   Children   War  
  • Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

    Peace   Fighting   Ubuntu  
  • Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

    Philip Gourevitch (2015). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan
  • Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.

    Men   Clothes   Justice  
    Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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