Quotes with social-welfare

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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Clinton When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bill Condon When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Malcolm X When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bruno Dumont When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bob Kerrey When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Cameron Sinclair When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Carl Levin While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Anthony Minghella You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Andrea Dworkin You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Benjamin Watson Amazingly, I think that a lot of times athletes are - are kind of in a position where other think they shouldn't weigh in on certain social topics.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Simone Weil In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Helen Keller My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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