Quotes on Social Policy

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.