The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.
If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.
I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.
People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.
I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.
I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.
People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.
I hope people from the social work profession do not encourage labelling.
