• Quotations collected by Simone Joyaux
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• General social justice (resources of general interest)
• Women (resources that focus on women's rights and equity)
• LBGTQ (resources that focus on rights and equity for the lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and queer communities)
• Advocacy and building community (resources that focus on advocacy and civic reflection)
• Peace (resources that focus on peace)

From various sources and printed in no particular order

 1.      “In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.” (Senator William Fulbright, 1905- 1995) 

2.      “If we’re here tonight and there’s no trouble tomorrow, we haven’t done our job.” (Gloria Steinem) 

3.      “There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible to fly on one wing.” (Prabhat Ranjan Sakar) 

4.      “Hope has two daughters, anger and courage. They are both lovely.” (Saint Augustine) 

5.      “My only hope is that, one day soon, women – who have all earned their right to their opinions – instead of being called opinionated, will be called smart and well-informed, just like men.” (Theresa Heinz Kerry) 

6.      “The law cannot do the major part of winning equality for women. Women must do it themselves. They must become revolutionaries.” (Shirley Chisholm)

7.      “As a black person, I am no stranger to race prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” (U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm)

8.      “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice. But there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” (Father Dan Berrigan)

9.      “Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputations…can never bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly avow their sympathies with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.” (Susan B. Anthony)

10.  “Women are the only exploited group in history who have been idealized into powerlessness.” (Erica Jong, b. 1942)

11.   “Women constitute half the world’s population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than one-hundredth of the world’s property.” (UN Report, 1980) – and it’s not much better now. 

12.  “The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women the very foundations of life are poisoned at their source. (Lucretia Mott, speaking at the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848.)

13.  “The U.S. has fallen severely short of the standards for women’s rights in the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political rights according to a recent report. Among the instances of persistent sex discrimination cited in the report are the U.S.’s failure to effectively address gender-based violence and the pervasive gender wage gap. If the U.S. government would comply with the U.N. standards, it would make a huge difference. It would eliminate many of the problems women face today in the U.S. (From Ms Magazine, Fall 2006

14.  “The sentimental cult of domestic virtues is the cheapest method at society’s disposal of keeping women quiet without seriously considering their grievances or improving their position.” (Alva Myrdal and Viola Klein)

15.  “When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen” (Pauline Frederick, died in 1938) And The White House Project research in the last general election identified the same issue for today.

16.  “If civilization is to advance at all in the future, it must be through the help of women, women freed of their political shackles, women with full power to work their will in society.” (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1857 – 1928)

17.  “Why then do women need power? Because power is freedom. Power allows us to accomplish what is important to us, in the manner that we best see fit. It separates the doers from the dreamers.” (Patti Mancini, 1989)

18.  “To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, died in 1902) And I hear this today.

19.  “So our challenge is to commit ourselves to creating the tipping point and the turning point. The time is ripe to launch a unified national movement, a campaign, a tidal wave, built around issues and values, not candidates.” (Jane Fonda, National Women’s Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C., June 12, 2003, sponsored by The White House Project)

20.  “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

21.  “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropists to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice that make philanthropy necessary.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

22.   “…The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her…Now, in view of this entire disenfranchisement of one-half the people of this country…we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States. In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality without our power to effect our object.”  (Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention, July 19, 1848, marking the beginning of the first women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

23.   “Being white and being male involve privilege: ‘an invisible package of unearned assets.’ People who recognize discrimination against others may have trouble recognizing that they have unearned privilege. They are taught not to recognize that they have it…People benefit from privilege even if they aren’t individually racist or sexist.” (Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”)

24.  “This is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether ‘we, the people’ is a spiritual idea embedded in a political realty – one nation, indivisible – or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.” (Bill Moyers: The Progressive Story of America, Friday, June 13, 2003, Take Back America Conference)

25.  “Charity is good, but supporting and creating social change are about power. Power can infuse lives with purpose and dignity. That opens up the possibility of joy. The life of the giver, as well as that of the receiver, is transformed…No matter who we are, no matter how much money we have, whatever our color, gender, age, religion, or language, we can bring change to the world around us. We can open our minds, roll up our sleeves, and reach out our hands.” (Alfre Woodard, Robin Hood Was Right)

26.  “Giving isn’t a posture reserved for the rich or powerful. It is the responsibility and privilege of every man, woman, and child to participate in the task of building more just and humane societies.” (Alfre Woodard, ibid)

27.  “Creating social change is exciting. It’s proof that we are alive and thinking. What could be better than to work for a future where fairness is the bottom line?” (Alfre Woodward, Robin Hood Was Right)

28.   “It is important for women to not just be in office, but in power. Women must be in power before we can be said to be equal.” (Marjorie Mowlam, member of British Parliament)

29.  “Progressive philanthropy strives to fund work that is proactive rather than reactive. Progressive philanthropy…challenges the assumptions that economic and social inequities are somehow unavoidable as the price of progress or prosperity.” (Tracy Gary and Melissa Kohner, Inspired Philanthropy: Creating A Giving Plan)

30.   “Small acts of resistance to authority, if persisted in, may lead to large social movements…ordinary people are capable of extraordinary acts of courage…those in power who confidently say ‘never’ to the possibility of change may live to be embarrassed by those words…the world of social struggle is full of surprises, as the common moral sense of people germinates invisibly, bubbles up, and at certain points in history brings about victories that may be small, but carry large promise.” (Howard Zinn, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train)

31.  “Democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Certainly this was the experience of African-Americans in this country for two hundred years. With the government failing to enforce the 14^th and 15^th Amendments to the Constitution, black men, women and children decided to do that on their own. They organized, demonstrated, protested, challenged the law, were beaten, went to prison, some killed – and thereby reached the conscience of the nation and the world. And things changed. That’s when democracy comes alive.” (Howard Zinn, ibid)

32.  “What had seemed fixed could change, what had seemed immovable could change.” (Howard Zinn, ibid.)

33.  “Social movements may have many ‘defeats’ – failing to achieve objectives in the short run – but in the course of the struggle the strength of the old order begins to erode, the minds of people begin to change; the protesters are momentarily defeated but not crushed, and have been lifted, heartened, by their ability to fight back.” (Howard Zinn, ibid)

34.  “Sometimes to be Silent is to Lie.” (Miguel Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, about the Spanish Civil War. Zinn quotes this about the Vietnam war)

35.  “There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment we will continue to see…The bad things that happen are repetitions of bad things that have always happened – war, racism, maltreatment of women, religious and nationalist fanaticism, starvation. The good things that happen are unexpected.” (Howard Zinn, ibid)

36.  “The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” (Howard Zinn, ibid)

37.  “When I first looked at this topic – why women matter and how women matter – I thought to myself, is this a question men would ask? I think not. They would ask, why does NATO matter, why does the UN matter, but they wouldn’t ask why they matter.” (Laura Liswood, cofounder, Council of Women World Leaders, Harvard University)

38.   “The truth is that we got stuck on a plateau here, somewhere between change, which is good, and transformation, which is excellent. There has been some transformation, thanks to the women’s movement…But transformation has come slowly, and too often American society has remained like those men’s schools that admitted women…men’s schools with women…Where the standards of reasonable women are honored, the culture has improved. Where they are not, not…Given the complexity and richness of the lives many women have now cobbled out of past imperatives and present opportunities, real transformation will come when men live more like us.” (Anna Quindlen, The Reasonable Woman Standard” March 2000)

39.  “It’s important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It’s the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It’s the way we talk about and treat one another. It’s who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It’s a state of mind. It’s the way we live no.” (Anna Quindlen, “And Now, Babe Feminism”, January 1994)

40.  “…The part of the promise of the women’s movement that I hope to see fulfilled in the twenty-first century is the liberation of men…the philosophy that was truly the linchpin of feminism…the deep and enduring belief that people be permitted to define themselves, not just by gender but by ability, inclination, and character…to make the world a better place for everyone, male and female alike.” (Anna Quindlen, “Off With Their Ties”)

41.  "The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and with their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic…'

"Affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women…When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat, and poured liquid into her until she vomited. 

"Thus unfolded the ‘Night of Terror’ on November 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.” (Source unknown; found no Internet)

42. “We have some getting ready to do…Getting ready to co-labor, to work together…

“You and I are constantly called upon to make assumptions about what the world will be like in five or ten years – and we guide our programs on the basis of these assumptions. The degree to which we are successfully clairvoyant will vary. But we all know what it is like not to be able to see ahead. And we all have that queasy feeling that comes when we are surprised by something we should have known was coming all along.

      “Samuel Becket caught that insight best. He penned one of the great, instructive thoughts of our time: ‘Everything will turn out all right – unless something unforeseen crops up.’

      “That thought of Beckett’s haunts me. If we remain…trapped in political gridlock, paralyzed in the face of challenge, it will not be because there were too many surprises. It will be because of what we can foresee but choose to ignore.” (Toward a New Social Contract, Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., then President, The Rockefeller Foundation, speech delivered at the 1991 Independent Sector Annual Meeting, October 15, 1991)

43. “There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.” (Dr. Paul F. Brandwein, attributed to a teacher of his.)

44. “Being born in the elite in the U.S. gives you a constellation of privileges that very few people in the world have ever experienced. Being born poor in the U.S. gives you disadvantages unlike anything in Western Europe and Japan and Canada.” (David I. Levine, economist, University of California, Berkeley, May 2005)

45. “We’d best restate what civil rights mean: the recognition that racial discrimination played a central role in the development of this nation [U. S.] and its institutions; the understanding that past discrimination resonates in the present; the acknowledgement that millions of Americans, a disproportionate share of them black or Latino, endure persistent poverty and in isolation from mainstream opportunity, and in conditions too brutal and pervasive for them to easily overcome solely on their own; the clearsighted conclusion that we’ve got far to go before there’s equal opportunity in America. And we’d better recognize what civil rights is not: an unregulated ‘free’ market or shaming fingers pointed at racial minorities and the poor.” (Susan Eaton, The Nation magazine, 01-10-17, 2005)

46.  “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice. But there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” (Father Daniel Berrigan)

47.  “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.” (George Bernard Shaw)

48.  “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening…This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”  (Frederick Douglass) 

49. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

My Own Personal Journey

Joyaux' Speech: Third Anniversary of the Women's Fund of RI, 2004

Joyaux' Speech: Second Anniversary of the Women's Fund of RI

2004 Commencement Address, Lincoln School, Rhode Island
 

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

The Soul of Environmentalism: Rediscovering Transformational Politics in the 21st Century (PDF)

Bill Moyers Speech, Take Back America, June 3, 2005 (PDF)

Bill Moyers on Health and Global Environment (12-04-04) (PDF)

2004 Barnard College Commencement Address by Barbara Ehrenreich (PDF)

Bill Moyers' speech, "Inequality Matters," presented June 3, 2004 at New York University. Moyers' talks about class warfare in the U.S. and the need to get angry, organize and take back our country. (PDF)

Women and Philanthropy  (PDF)

UN Declaration for Women  (PDF)

Women, Wealth and Influence (PDF)

Bill Moyers Progressive Speech (PDF)

Social Justice Philanthropy, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (PDF)

RI Civil Rights Report. (PDF)

Women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution and in post-conflict peace-building (PDF)

The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality (PDF)
 

You Can't Remain Neutral on a Moving Train by Howard Zinn ISBN # 0-8070-7127-7

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn ISBN # 0-06-052837-0

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan (Also available on DVD as a documentary with the same name.)
 

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, by Barry Glassner

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff. ISBN #1-931498-71-7

Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore

The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, by Jeremy Rifkin

GREED by Julian Edney. An essay concerning the origins, nature, extent and morality of greed, the apartheid economy of the United States. http://www.g-r-e-e-d.com/GREED.htm

Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror, by Anonymous

Inspired Philanthropy: Creating a Giving Plan by Tracy Gary and Melissa Kohner (ISBN # 1-890759-03-1)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN #0-8050-7606-9

The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Robin Hood Was Right by Chuck Collins and Pam Rogers (ISBN # 0-393-04827-6)

Short Changes: Foundation Giving and Communities of Color. A recent research report from the Applied Research Center. This report notes that we are losing ground in the philanthropic community's support to communities of color and racial justice. Copies of the report are available on the web site. www.arc.org/Pages/pubs/shortchanged_b.html

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of our Times (book by Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States.)

The W Effect: Bush's War on Women, edited by Laura Flanders. Available at bookstores and www.feministpress.org

Compilation of articles from media around the world. www.truthout.org 

The Nation (weekly magazine) www.thenation.com
 

www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091105X.shtml
Bill Moyers article: 9/11 and the Sport of God

www.ourfuture.org
Campaign for America's Future

www.synergos.org
Synergos Institute: Working with partners to bridge social and economic divides to reduce poverty and increase equity around the world

www.opendemocracy.org
Free thinking for the world

www.rikidscount.org
Rhode Island Kids Count: Children's policy organization providing information on child well-being, stimulating dialogue on children's issues, and promoting accountability and action.

American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
ACLU, defending the Bill of Rights.

Center for American Progress
www.centerforamericanprogress.org
Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all Americans.

www.ncrp.org 
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy: Dedicated to helping the philanthropic community advance the traditional values of social and economic justice for all Americans.
 

Closing the Leadership gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World by Marie C. Wlson, Viking Press, 2004.

www.closingtheleadershipgap.com
Closing the Leadership Gap, a newsletter from Marie Wilson.

http://www.fundforward.org/uswomenwithoutborders/index.html
U.S. Women Without Borders, a project of the Women's Funding Network

www.4era.org
Non-partisan, single-issue, grassroots organization. Our mission is to build solidarity among Americans for ratifying and promulgating the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

www.rifoundation.org/wfri/html/index.htm 
Women's Fund of Rhode Island, part of the global movement to advance equity and social justice for women and girls.

www.wfnet.org 
Women's Funding Network: The association of women's funds from around the world.

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/e1cedaw.htm

UN's Commision on the Status of Women
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw

www.catalystwomen.org  (Catalyst....advancing women in business)

Rhode Island Feminist Resources Network www.rifrn.net

www.revolutionarywomen.org
Women's Rally at the Democratic National Convention, Boston 2004.

www.mccormack.umb.edu/cwppp
Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/  Center for American Women and Politics University-based research, education and public service center whose mission is to promote greater knowledge and understanding about women's participation in politics and government and to enhance women's influence and leadership in public life

www.nwlc.org 
National Women's Law Center: Protects and advances the progress of women and girls at work, in school, and in virtually every aspect of their lives.

www.thewhitehouseproject.org 
The White House Project: Dedicated to advancing women's leadership by enhancing public perceptions of women's capacity to lead and fostering the entry of women into positions of leadership, including the U.S. presidency.

www.emilyslist.org 
EMILY's List: An acronym for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" because it helps the "dough" rise. EMILY's List is the nation's largest grassroots political network, raising campaign contributions for pro-choice Democratic women candidates running for the U.S. House and Senate and for governor.

www.iwpr.org  
Institute for Women's Policy Research: Public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating debate on issues of critical important to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, health and safety, and women's political and civic participation.

www.women-philanthropy.org 
Women's Philanthropy Institute: Inspiring, education and encouraging women to effect change in the world through philanthropy."

www.womenphil.org 
Women & Philanthropy: Advocates within the field of philanthropy for the full engage of women and girls in society. Works to increase the effectiveness of foundations and individual philanthropists in creating a more caring and just world.

www.centerwomenpolicy.org
Center for Women's Policy: The nation’s first feminist policy research organization, founded in1972, promoting, justice and equality for women.

www.ecssba.rutgers.edu/studies/solself.html
Women's suffrage movement: Stanton and Anthony papers
 

www.rifoundation.org/equity_action/index_flash.htm
Equity Action Fund at The Rhode Island Foundation: Strengthening the infrastructure and capacity of LGBTQ-led organizations, and mainstream nonprofit that provide services to the LGBTQ community.

www.hrc.org
Human Rights Campaign: working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equal rights
 

www.rockridgeinstitute.org
The Rockridge Institute is a group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable and human society. Rockridge words to reframe the public debate, tell the progressive story, build links, advance public policies, and nurture a united voice among those working for progressive change by developing a common progressive story, a common moral language and shared policy directions.National Voice

www.nationalvoice.org
Coalition of regional and national nonprofits working together to make the work of nonprofits in elections more effective.

Alliance for Justice
www.allianceforjustice.org/nonprofit/technical_resources/resources/
Provides briefing papers and other materials that help nonprofits understand how to engage in election-related issues.

Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI)
www.clpi.org
Provides lobbying and public policy advocacy resources for nonprofits.

OMB Watch and NPAction
www.ombwatch.org  and www.npaction.org
OMB Watch provides nonprofits with resources and guides for advocacy and political action. NPAction.org was established as a nonprofit advocacy exchange and information resource.

www.advocacy.org
Making social justice leadership strategic, effective, and sustainable. A project of the Advocacy Institute.

www.valpo.edu/organization/pocr
Project on Civic Reflection: Develops and evaluates conversations of reading and reflection on our life in community and the three fundamental human activities that nourish that life: giving, serving, and leading.

www.moveon.org 
MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action -- MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. Our international network of more than 2,000,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.

American Friends Service Committee: National Youth and Militarism Program.

www.youth4peace.org

National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth.
www.youthandthemilitary.org

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: Youth Outreach Program.
www.wagingpeace.org

The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities:
www.projectyano.org

The Student Peace Action Network:
www.studentpeaceaction.org

United for Peace and Justice: Counter Military Recruitment Campaign,
www.unitedforpeace.org