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Quotes about Social Responsibility
The welfare of the people is the highest law
— Cicero
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
— Grover Cleveland
I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
— Tony Campolo
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If
— Wendell Berry
When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
— Heidi Baker
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
— George Bernard Shaw
This is to assuage our conscience, darling," she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor.
— Isabel Allende
Blacks abandoned morals, fathers, and real belief in God.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
— Toni Morrison