"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Society, Sacrifice, Progress, Goal, Concern

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"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Society, Economy, Consent, Education, Awareness

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Society, Identity, Belonging, Truth, Modernity

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Society, Celebrity, Recognition, Privacy, Life

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Society, Church, Abuse, Victims, Media

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Society, Praise, Criticism, Irony, Judgment

"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."

Max Baucus, American Politician

Society, America, Help, Saying, Senate

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Society, Energy, People, World, Connection

"Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful " but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Society, Gender, Control, Freedom, Power

"A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Society, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm"."

John Green, American Author

Society, Satire, Humor, Feminism, Protest

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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

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"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

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"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."

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"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

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"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."

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