“Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.”
— Marian Wright Edelman
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“Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large; not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.”
— Simon Mainwaring
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“My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.”
— John Woolman
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“If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.”
— Luc de Clapiers
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“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
— Karl Marx
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“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.”
— W. H. Auden
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“Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.”
— Charles de Secondat
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“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
— Howard Zinn
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“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.”
— Samuel Richardson
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“Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?”
— Kurt Russell
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“The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.”
— Joe Biden
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