Quotes & Sayings About Social Justice From To Kill A Mockingbird

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it. — Charles R. Swindoll

the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, — Plato

They were not unfortunate girls who, as outcasts or in the belief that they were cast out by society, grieved wholesomely and intensely and, once in a while at times when the heart was too full, ventilated it in hate or forgiveness. No visible change took place in them; they lived in the accustomed context, were respected as always, and yet they were changed, almost unaccountably to themselves and incomprehensibly to others. Their lives were not cracked or broken, as others' were, but were bent into themselves; lost to others, they futilely sought to find themselves. — Soren Kierkegaard

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them. — Julius Erving

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in ... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. — Jane Austen

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think ... and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone ... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself. — Umberto Eco

Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty. — Mario Puzo

The Bible will always be the center of controversy. — Billy Graham

As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command. — John F. Kerry

Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it. — Mike Tyson

What most people don't realize is that when you decide to write and publish a book, it's not for stardom, or for fame, it's because you have a story that's inside of you that is dying to get out! You don't just come up with it one day, it's a thought that evolves into something unimaginable beautiful... — Sontia Levy-Mason