#society

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #canadians #discrimination #effort #encounter

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? ↗

— Tim Matheson

#american society #blame #educational #entire #fraternity

A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bore #bores #cleaner #eager #everything

Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. ↗

— Robert Casey

#living #pay #pluralistic #price #society

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. ↗

— Rollo May

#courage #cowardice #opposite #our #society

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#shows #society #solitude #us

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. ↗

— Peter Medawar

#changes #growing #growing up #just #leave

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#concessions #life #reciprocal #society #subsist

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#another #bill #billions #build #congress

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american society #brave #civil #civil rights