Quotes with social-cultural

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  • Arthur Erickson The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Carson Grant The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
    Kaminsky, Denise, Aug 2006, Carson Grant: Actor/Artist- A Lifetime of Art, Denises Interviews and Media News, p.1
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  • Carter G. Woodson The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bayard Rustin The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Carroll Quigley The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Anita Roddick The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 273
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Amartya Sen The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Bryant H. McGill The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Ben Bernanke The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Helene Deutsch The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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