Policies Quotes

“Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy. It's a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Of course, ordinary White people benefit from racist policies, though not nearly as much as racist power and not nearly as much as they could from an equitable society, one where the average White voter could have as much power as superrich White men to decide elections and shape policy.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the rest of us.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“To make our world a better place, we need to build products that the corrupt cannot abuse - Bitcoin is the best example of that.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Laws, policies and amendments are not going to ensure justice in the human society, unless the humans - each human - all humans, uphold justice with utmost courage, care and conscience in their daily walks of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“RACIST: One who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction or expressing a racist idea.

ANTIRACIST: One who is supporting an antiracist policy through their actions or expressing an antiracist idea.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“I would not expect Joe Biden to win against President Trump.”
― Steven Magee

“A racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. An antiracist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups. By policy, I mean written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people. There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Not everybody believes in the possibility of political persuasion. Many people see political positions as expressions of innate personality traits - hard-wired into us either by our genes or by an irreversible process of socialization. Why should we waste time trying to be persuasive when people never really change their minds? This is a reasonable concern.

The idea that persuasion doesn't work comes from a bad application of good science. A substantial body of research suggests that our political beliefs are shaped by more or less fixed psychological characteristics ... Research like this, however, tells us about the difficulty of conversion, not persuasion. These are not the same things. We too often misrepresent the task of political persuasion by thinking of the most strident partisan we have ever encountered and imagining what it would take to turn that person into an equally strident partisan for the other side. This sort of Paul-on-the-Road-to-Damascus conversion rarely happens in politics. Most people don't change their fundamental values, and if we expect them to, we are going to be very disappointed.

But we usually don't need people to change their fundamental values in order to convince them to adopt a particular position. The fact that people have fundamental values makes it possible to persuade them by appealing to those values. But we have to find values that we really share.”
― Michael Austin, We Must Not Be Enemies: Restoring America's Civic Tradition

“Every single person actually has the power to protest racist and antiracist policies, to advance them, or, in some small way, to stall them.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“We have two Americas: one where opportunity is locked in, the other where it is largely locked out.”
― David Gottstein, A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America

“Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“I love it when a justice system becomes the justice system.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The next generation poverty will be caused by ignorance and fear of today's opportunities, not lack of money or bad government policies. Think deeply.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Most white Americans believe elections should be a choice of policies rather than expressions of racial identity. If Americans vote for a candidate because of his racial agenda, representative government is crippled. Democratic systems operate well only when politicians recognize that even if their opponents’ approaches may be different, all parties are trying to work for the good of the country as a whole. When politics fracture along racial lines, it becomes easy to assume that elected officials work for narrow, ethnic interests, and political contests become very bitter.
The ultimate logic of politics in a racially fractured electorate is a system of quotas in which seats in elective bodies are set aside in proportion to the racial composition of the population. This is the formula hopelessly divided countries such as Lebanon and immediate post-white-rule Zimbabwe and South Africa hit upon. It could be the solution for other divided countries such as Iraq, Sudan, Fiji, Malaysia, or Sri Lanka, where politics is a perpetual squabble over ethnic interests.
There is already implied support for proportional racial representation in the federal approach to voter districts. The US Department of Justice has long required that congressional districts be gerrymandered to create black and Hispanic majorities that are expected to vote along racial lines and send one of their own to Congress. The department also routinely sues cities that choose their governing bodies in at-large elections. If, for example, a city is 30 percent black but has no blacks on the city council because all candidates must appeal to the entire city, voting must be switched to a ward system, with wards drawn so that blacks—by voting for people like themselves have approximately 30 percent of the council seats. In 2006, the Justice Department used precisely this argument to threaten Euclid, Ohio, with litigation if it did not replace its at-large elections with a system of eight separate wards.
In 2010, Hispanics made the same argument when they sued the city of Compton: They claimed that an at-large voting system shut them out and kept the city council all black.”
― Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

“The corporate controlled government is pursuing policies that will increase the profits of the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries at the expense of the health and safety of the mass population.”
― Steven Magee

“When your manager tells you the published company health and safety policies are bogus and not to follow them, you know that you are working for a very shady company.”
― Steven Magee

“If bills and amendments could stop terrorism, there wouldn't be any terrorism - just like, the presence of anti-corruption laws does not stop corruption.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Don’t confuse the ‘idea’ of a cure with an actual cure, for our culture is dying the death of ideas in the absence of cures.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If a government is born of merit and character, they would not need pressure from humanitarians and activists to reform its out-of-date policies - they would do it on their own, because they are accountable.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“If capitalism is to work in the long run, it must make investments that are not in any particular individual's immediate self-interest but are in the human community's long-run self-interest (p. 308).”
― Lester Carl Thurow, The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Shape Tomorrow's World

“A government's job is to put into place policies and laws that
protect all people and the planet!”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“Russian authorities distinguished between steppe Islam, suffused, they believed, with Shamanism, and the Islam of the Uzbek cities, which they considered hotbeds of fanaticism. Catherine viewed Islam as a "civilizing" tool that would first make Kazakhs good Muslims, then good citizens, eventually good Christians. She used Tatar teachers, her subjects, who could travel among the nomads and speak their language, to preach a more "correct" Islam. The Tatars became an important factor in implanting in the steppe an Islam that adhered more closely to traditional Muslim practices.”
― Peter B. Golden, Central Asia in World History

“Any morally conscious American voter, regardless of political affiliation, should oppose policies that advocate for civilian firearm possession.”
― William Castano-Bedoya, We the Other People: The Beggars of the Mercury Lights

“The power of a principled mind pressed into the service of moral men stands as a nation changing force that all of the weakened policies of lesser men fall in the wake of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ethics and effectiveness are not adversaries but allies. Ethically crafted policies consider long-term societal impacts, fostering sustainable solutions that address core issues. Aligning with Maqasid ensures policies not only achieve their goals but also nurture the common good.”
― Abdellatif Raji, Heaven Is Under the Feet of Governments: Steering Nations With Maqasid