Social Justice Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live. — Lailah Gifty Akita

First, a school with a strong, shared sense of mission is more likely to initiate improvement efforts. Second, norms of collegiality are related to collaborative planning and effective decision making. Third, cultures with a strong dedication to improvement are more likely to implement complex new instructional strategies. Finally, schools improve best when small successes are recognized and celebrated through shared ceremonies commemorating both individual and group contributions (Louis, 1994; Fullan, 1998; Abplanalp, 2008). — Terrence E. Deal

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. — John Ruskin

Hey, would you look at that shit?"
I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle.
"Clear out!" I barked.
They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders. — Ilona Andrews

This world is bullshit. And just because I appear in music video wherein I am in my underwear, and make young women feel not good enough so that they become anorxeic; and okay, maybe because of that I became popular more quickly than other singers who are, I don't know, maybe more talented or better songwriters. That doesn't matter because, and ... um ... my boyfriend is a magician, and he can pull a quarter out of your ear and say things like 'We have not met before have we?' Go with yourself. — Janeane Garofalo

If it's tough believing what you believe, then maybe it's time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town. — John Schneider

Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Always seek to learn: The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights. — Artika R. Tyner

It's not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it's homophobia. It's not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it's racism. It's not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it's sexism. And it's ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us. — Ashton Applewhite

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying. — Screamin' Jay Hawkins

It's going to be a grand adventure and a fairy tale of marvels. But it's my fault that you'll find a dragon at the end, my darling knight. — Fredrik Backman

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities. — Melina Marchetta

I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good. — Kermit Roosevelt III

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast. — Charles Keating

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. — Charles Spurgeon

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village. — T.F. Hodge

Understanding how or why is seldom as useful as understanding that things are. — Robin Hobb

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance. — Sharon Salzberg