Social Equality Quotes

“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west of Berlin Wall, to the east and the north of it, since the same time it was introduced the myth of the people’s or popular socialism. But the suggestion is always the same. Under any “people’s” power—from people’s capitalism to people’s socialism—the greatest illusion suggested to the oppressed classes is that the people are sovereign, i.e., that all the people dominate over themselves. In this respect, even John Kenneth Galbraith makes Marxist conclusions, which even in the Internet epoch have the same power: “Young people are suggested that in a democracy the entire power belongs to the people!” (“The Anatomy of Power”)
Yet, old people know that this is not true!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“True capitalism can seem a lot like Nazism.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“It’s not really that I hate capitalism; I really couldn’t care less what kind of system of economic distribution we have, as long as it works for the good of all.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“If capitalism was under another system which regulated it, so that supplies would fit the demand, rather than the suppliers trying to manipulate demands with deception to sell, then capitalism would be a great system.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“The future of social entrepreneurship is no longer about looking up to a select few who have some kind of rare gift for implementing innovative ideas. Every individual and organization has a role to play in mobilizing skills, talents, and life experiences to move towards a more just and equitable world where all have what they need to survive and thrive in life.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Every individual and organization has a role to play in mobilizing skills, talents, and life experiences to move towards a more just and equitable world where all have what they need to survive and thrive in life.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Social entrepreneurship is an obvious solution that just makes our lives easier.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Nous allons dans quelques mois rendre hommage aux femmes et aux hommes de courage qui, il y a cinquante ans, ont contribué à Selma, en Alabama, à mettre à bas les lois Jim Crow [imposant la ségrégation raciale]. De la même façon, je suis convaincu qu’un jour nous analyserons rétrospectivement la période que nous vivons, et que nous comprendrons qu’il y avait là toute une génération qui, refusant le statu quo, a employé son temps, ses talents et son énergie pour faire de l’Amérique une union plus belle et meilleure.”
― Courrier International

“Social entrepreneurship is about disrupting existing markets that aren’t working, and creating new ones to improve the status quo.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Ensuring social protection for all children and other vulnerable groups is critical to reduce poverty.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Poverty has many dimensions, but its causes include unemployment, social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain populations to disasters, diseases and other phenomena which prevent them from being productive.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Inclusive and sustainable economic growth can drive progress and generate the means to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Truman’s progressive civil rights record stood in some contrast with his personal prejudices. He differentiated between “political equality,” by which he meant the government’s duty to treat all citizens equally regardless of race, and “social equality,” which were code words for racial integration.”
― Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

“We’ll need to think more carefully about the broader ethics of identity, difference, and the global dynamics of power that have made it so that hundreds and thousands of Westerners jet-set around the globe to Ghana, Nicaragua, or Haiti to help, heal, and remedy what needs to be fixed, while hundreds and thousands of Ghanaians, Nicaraguans, or Haitians are similarly not coming to our countries to do the same”
― Anu Taranath, Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World