Quotes about Society

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

if she wishes to be American—to be known as such and to actually belong—she must become a thing unimaginable in her home country: she must become white.

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

A woman could be cobra-thin and starving, but if she had grapefruit boobs and raccoon eyes, she was deliriously happy.

When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Every other institution in society is built on the family. If the family disintegrates, those institutions that depend on strong families will disintegrate as well. Once that happens, there is no law you can pass that will make up for the devastation. There is no program you can institute that will fix what happens to people when a home is shattered. There is no politician you can elect who can bring harmony and social order when the family is decimated.

Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

Jesus firmly and consistently reinforced human equality by spending a lot of time in the margins of society, most notably in relationships with women. He didn't simply bring relief and comfort to the down and out. He engaged, recruited, and mobilized for his kingdom people who didn't count for anything in the eyes of society or of religious leaders. His interactions with women violated patriarchal propriety and repeatedly shocked his disciples.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.