A Quote by Nelson Mandela

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

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Character Children How Revealed Society Treats True True Character

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Nelson Mandela
South African - Statesman
July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

Hubert H. Humphrey

A society should be judged by how it treats its children. A country that fails to invest in its children is imperilling its future.

Owen Jones

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Glenn Greenwald

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

Bryan Stevenson

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Mahatma Gandhi

I always felt the true test of a man's character is how he treats people he can't use.

Lee Corso

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Alison Goodman

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abigail Van Buren

I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.

Shepard Fairey

What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand actions taken while in the spotlight. Our true character is revealed by normal, consistent, everyday attitudes and behavior, not by self-conscious words or deeds or rare acts of moral courage.

Michael Josephson

Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And if we take that index as a measure of the United States, it's utterly failing. You have young people basically who - in schools that are increasingly modeled after prisons. You have their behavior being increasingly criminalized. And one of the most atrocious of all acts, you have the rise of debtors' prisons for children.