SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ALTRUISM QUOTES



SOCIAL JUSTICE/ALTRUISM

  1. "Life is for service." -- words on Mister Rogers' favorite hanging in his office
  2. "I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain." -- Mahatma Gandhi
  3. "We are here on earth to do good to others. What others are here for, I don't know." -- W.H. Auden
  4. "No good deed ever goes wasted." -- Rabbi Harold Kushner
  5. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace." -- Anonymous
  6. "If you give what you do not need, it isn't giving." -- Mother Teresa
  7. "The British Airways steward announced that the in-flight movie would be Chariots of Fire. 'Is that the only one?' I asked. 'We are also showing Gandhi,' he replied. 'Where do I have to sit to see it?" I responded. 'I'm sorry, sir, but Gandhi is only showing in first class.' The irony seemed to escape him." -- Jim Wallis
  8. "If you think the world is all wrong, remember that it contains people like you." -- Mohandas Gandhi
  9. "When I was a child and would hear scary things on the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" -- Fred Rogers, children's television host
  10. "A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else." -- Booker T. Washington
  11. "We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  12. "My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do." -- Maya Angelou
  13. "All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing." --adapted from Edmund Burke
  14. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." --Mother Theresa of Calcutta
  15. �The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.� � Martin Luther King, Jr.
  16. �Become the change we wish to see in the world.� � Gandhi
  17. �You are a marvel�In all the world, there is no other exactly like you.� -- Pablo Casals
  18. �It is not enough to be compassionate � you must act.� -- His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
  19. �Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it." -- Mohandas Gandhi
  20. �Every day they die in Vietnam for nothing. I might as well stay right here and live or die for something.� -- Muhammad Ali
  21. �We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?� � John Lennon
  22. �The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads. When you get people to participate in nonviolent action � whether it�s a fast, a march, a boycott, or a picket line � people hear you, people see you, people are learning from that action.� � Dolores Huerta
  23. �Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned.� -- Heinrich Heine
  24. "The people are the only ones capable of transforming society." - Rigoberta Menchu
  25. "It is possible to live in peace." - Gandhi
  26. "If I could have three wishes, world peace would be all three." - Marilia Moore, 8th grader
  27. "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less importrant whether I am afraid." - Andre Lorde
  28. "Let us not become the evil we deplore." - US Rep. Barbara Lee, 9/14/01
  29. "When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." -- Audre Lorde
  30. "Do what you can where you are with what you have." -- Theodore Roosevelt
  31. "Life is not meaningful....unless it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else." -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  32. �Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.� � Jean Paul Richter
  33. "The world is now too dangerous for anything but the truth and too small for us to be divided." -- quotation I like on mural near Grand & Main St. in Paterson, New Jersey
  34. "There is no limit to the amount of good people can do if they don't care who gets the credit." -- anonymous




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