Social Activist

Famous quotes containing the words social and/or activist:

    “The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “... as a result of generations of betrayal, it’s nearly impossible for Southern Negroes to trust a Southern white. No matter what he does or what he suffers, a white liberal is never established beyond suspicion in the hearts of the minority.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 10 (1962)