Quotes About Social

When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.

Philanthropists decide how to spend their money based on their own personal whims, rather than what is best for the social good.

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.

Because whisper networks are built on personal credibility and social capital, they often end up operating like exclusive clubs.

In my culture, whispering in the company of others is considered rude.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.

You can be poor, middle class, or rich - it doesn't matter. The black card will still confer upon you an entire history of oppression, even if you've never been oppressed. Flash the black card, and most white people will cower.

In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn toward social history, which meant the history of the voiceless and faceless. But the public at large never embraced the idea that these dead white guys should be abandoned.

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

Especially going to Oakland public schools where as a white kid you have to figure out if you're going to sink or swim socially, one of the main ways to stay buoyant was to stay funny.

First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.

Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.

I like to contribute as much as possible to some of the NGOs that I know and in the areas that I like to contribute to. These include primary health, primary education, children's issues and AIDS.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Sadly, I've never met Princess Kate.