“It took me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.”— Sister Helen Prejean, twitter.com
“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“It was Michael Jackson that brought blacks and whites and Asians and Latinos together. It was Michael Jackson that made us sing we 'are the world,' and feed the hungry.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“There is a problem in this country, that a lot of people don’t believe women. A lot of people don’t believe young women.”— Al Sharpton, en.wikiquote.org
“We built pyramids before Donald Trump even knew what architecture was. We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos was born.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“The words 'law and order' have so frequently been misused as an excuse for oppression that the very phrase has become suspect in countries which have known authoritarian rule.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Hope and optimism are irrepressible but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious. Often the anxious question is asked: will such an oppressive regime really give us democracy? And the answer has to be: democracy, like liberty, justice and other soc…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”— Chrissy Stockton, shopcatalog.com
“While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.”— Stokely Carmichael, college.cengage.com
“Don't forget it's ego of the individual that always threatens the good of the whole.”— Coleman Herbert, Karen Egan, Brenda Pressley, imdb.com
“Just as the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“One person's energetic shift has the power to create a ripple effect around the world.”— Gabby Bernstein, amazon.com
“The ego wants to be noticed. It needs stroking, pumping up and limelight. One of the problems in the world is the competition of egos.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“Jerry, this is the way society functions. Aren't you a part of society? Because if you don't want to be a part of society, Jerry, why don't you just get in your car and move to the East Side?”— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com