#soc

I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#accomplish #administration #depression #efforts #felt

I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#always #american #american society #argue #because

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#because #fabric #large #large numbers #money

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#awful #because #century #demagoguery #history

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses. ↗

— Yitzhak Shamir

#democratic #democratic society #depend #even #events

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#always #been #i #i think #involved

She poured a little social sewage into his ears. ↗

— George Meredith

#his #into #little #poured #sewage

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from. ↗

— Andrew Shue

#deal #far #great #great deal #grew

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#atmosphere #debate #debating #ever #gets

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#artistic #authority #doubting #even #experimenting