Words from Others on this Topic

The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.

Martin Luther King Jr., 1968, from the speech “Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution”

And what are our needs for happiness? We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.

Enrique Peñalosa

All I tried to do in my stories was show that there’s some innate goodness in the human condition. And there’s always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil.

Stan Lee, 2003, from the article “Reform Judaism Online”

Stakeholder capitalism is not about politics. It is not a social or ideological agenda. It is not “woke.” It is capitalism, driven by mutually beneficial relationships between you and the employees, customers, suppliers, and communities your company relies on to prosper. This is the power of capitalism.

Larry Fink, 2022, from the letter “to CEOs from Larry Fink in 2022”

The existence and validity of human rights are not written in the stars. The ideals concerning the conduct of men toward each other and the desirable structure of the community have been conceived and taught by enlightened individuals in the course of history. Those ideals and convictions which resulted from historical experience, from the craving for beauty and harmony, have been readily accepted in theory by man – and at all times, have been trampled upon by the same people under the pressure of their animal instincts. A large part of history is therefore replete with the struggle for those human rights, an eternal struggle in which a final victory can never be won. But to tire in that struggle would mean the ruin of society.

Albert Einstein, 20 Feb 1954, from the speech “Address to the Chicago Decalogue Society”

Well, if one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! – and listens to their testimony. Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person – ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it.

James Baldwin, 1972, from the book No Name In The Street

For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28 Jun 2018, from the interview “Stephen Colbert Show”

Relevant Reference Models

Core Design Principles for the Efficacy of Groups

• elements 2 – 6

The Four-Way Test

Think win-win

• An element of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People