Society

"It is especially for you, young peo­ple, to take on the great task of building a society where there will be more justice and solidarity." - Pope Francis ...

“If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy." - Ralph Ellison ...

"It's too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis." - George Burns ...

"A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it." - Carl T. Rowan ...

"We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, ...

"There are more slaves today than at any point in history. 12-27 million forced to work at subsistence pay under threat of violence. The US government estimates 50,000 people work in hidden bondage.  90% are used for sex, indentured domestics ...

"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it." - Joseph Conrad ...

"I think it’s helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest ...

"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops." - Paul Brooks ...

"In this country “American” means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate."              - Toni Morrison ...