#status quo

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. ↗

— Angela Davis

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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. ↗

— Dave Winfield

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The status quo is simply unacceptable. ↗

— Brad Henry

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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. ↗

— Bob Iger

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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. ↗

— Jane Elliot

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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. ↗

— Sarah Palin

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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