Social Issues Quotes

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

“And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever existing form of media, harrassed, molested, raped, and, if all that wasn't enough, is forever poked and prodded and weighed and constantly wrong for eating too much, eating too little, a million details which all point to the solitary girl, to EVERY solitary girl, and say: Destroy yourself.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Responsible parenting is NOT a crime. Responsible parenting is most valuable tool of our society.”
― Mick Karabegovic

“If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?”
― Edward M. Wolfe, When Everything Changed

“Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common experience for its symbolic resonance. Crack stood for pain and power, chaos and order, the truth behind the lie. Crack was a sociolegal logic grounded in blood.”
― Dimitri A. Bogazianos, 5 Grams: Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

“Order is nothing but a friendship with chaos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting

“Why, oh why doth people gazeth into their damn'd phones in a restaurant when there is good fayre and wond'rful company to be enjoy'd?”
― Kevin Ansbro

“They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class.”
― Margaret Butler, The Lion of England

“Then he recalled what a Negro street speaker had said one night on the corner of 138th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York: that unorganized labor meant cheap labor; that the guarantee of cheap labor was an effective means of luring new industries into the South; that so long as the ignorant white masses could be kept thinking of the menace of the Negro to Caucasian race purity and political control, they would give little thought to labor organization.”
― George S. Schuyler, Black No More

“There will always be prejudice in a label society.”
― A.J. Garces

“Are we unknowingly allowing a society to evolve that is the perfect breeding ground, and perhaps even a “killing field,” for psychopaths?”
― robert d hare , sin conciencia

“The one good thing about national anthems is that we're already on our feet, and therefore ready to run.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“People are the reasons I stay indoors.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“I just stepped outside, and what did I see? If the pinnacle of our social gatherings is to stand around, consuming free food and cheap wine, while merely existing in the same space as others, then we've set the bar for human interaction rather low, haven't we? But it gets better - or worse, depending on your perspective. People aren't just standing; they're sprawled on floors or perched on tables, opening their mouths only to shovel in food or to gossip about others. This isn't just setting the bar low; it's digging it into the ground. Imagine a true celebration of humanity, where we connect genuinely, share talents like live music, and uplift each other. Instead, we're at these so-called 'parties,' where the entertainment is watching others or idle gossip, all while in environments more suited for cleaning than socializing. It's not the mark of a smart city but a society content with mediocrity, maybe even regressing in hygiene and social grace. Perhaps it's time to look beyond, to Mars, where the party might just be starting, and every gathering could showcase our potential for greatness, not just our complacency and disregard for basic hygiene.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“When world cries blood,
your blood ought to boil.
If you feel nothing at all,
you're a stain upon the soil.

When the world cries blood,
backbone oughta spark thunder.
If you feel nothing at all,
file for a bankrupt character.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“When the world cries blood, backbone oughta spark thunder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Young women get to date who they want while men date who they can but when they get older men marry who they want and women marry who they can.”
― drew afualo

“... Gen Z has a global perspective. Gen Z will graduate into a recession on account of the 2009 financial crisis and the global pandemic of 2020. These economic stressors will undermine this generation's ability to be independent and self-reliant. Gen Z were born into an era of increased gun violence, terrorism and war.”
― Gaiti Rabbani, Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding

“This is the time to be unrealistic in our demands for change. We are told repeatedly we need to be realistic, but that is just another method of social control.”
― Walidah Imarisha

“Mind your own damn business.”
― Tim Walz

“They stole the ground beneath his feet with deceit, and now they label him a loser. Sadly, the world buys their lies, overlooking both the truth and his suffering.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Our Nepal, Our Pride

“The spiritual shape of a soul is different from the spiritual shape of a society, and values which make a society function better may destroy the individual.”
― Connor Patrick Sullivan, Philosophy of The Individual: A Radical Exploration of Consciousness, Individualism, and the True Nature of Reality

“But I want to caution you, what I am telling you is not for you to judge people. It is simply to help you understand that pain changes people. Sometimes forever.”
― LaShonda C. Henderson, Selah The Myth of Love Life Stories

“According to The History of the Body, edited by Corbin, Courtine, and Vigarello, the "criminalization of the gaze" that took hold around the dawn of the twentieth century had led to the decline of the freak show, which was subsequently replaced in popularity by the Monsters of Hollywood. Now, with costumes serving as an ethical cushion, people could enjoy ogling deformity without guilt or reserve.”
― Saou Ichikawa, Hunchback

“childhood is not for sell, children are not content”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, The Silent Crisis

“childhood is not for sell, children are not content, stop using your children for like, share, and viral,”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, The Silent Crisis

“It is in the linkage between freedom of movement and equality of opportunity that the analogy with feudalism cuts most deeply. Under feudalism, there was no commitment to equal opportunity. The social circumstances of one’s birth largely determined one’s opportunities, and restrictions on freedom of movement were an essential element in maintaining the limitations on the opportunities of those with talent and motivation but the wrong class background. (Of course, gender was another pervasive constraint.) In the modern world, we have created a social order in which there is a commitment to equality of opportunity for people within democratic states (at least to some extent), but no pretense of, or even aspiration to, equality of opportunity for people across states. Because of the state’s discretionary control over immigration, the opportunities for people in one state are simply closed to those from another (for the most part).”
― Joseph H. Carens, The Ethics of Immigration

“People, people, people — an ocean of people, but I can't find even a drop of humanity.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things