Quotes About Social justice

In my work, I'm always trying not to put barriers up between the 'good poor' and the 'bad poor.' I'm not sure my work will change things much, but at the very least, you want to make people feel that they are not alone.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Let's get our civic laws right and abide by them.

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice.

Let's remember, a protest isn't supposed to appease everybody.

White supremacy is not confined to strange men in the Deep South who put on white cloaks, it is not confined to strange gatherings of the English Defence League.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

Women's liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.

Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless.

This is what we mean by democracy: that everyone has a voice, that no one gets away with things just because of their wealth, power, race, or gender.

Ruef attempted to reduce wages by arguing that in the crisis "there is pressing need for mutual concession," so unskilled workmen should accept $2.50 for a nine-hour day rather than $8.00, as it had been before. What made the concession mutual was not specified.

Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth—and in our minds, where it all begins and ends.

Disaster demonstrates this, since among the factors determining whether you will live or die are the health of your immediate community and the justness of your society.

Como el racismo, la misoginia nunca será abordada adecuadamente si se hace solo desde las víctimas. Los hombres que lo asumen también entienden que el feminismo no es un intento de despojar a los hombres de sus derechos, sino una campaña para liberarnos a todos.

Six days a week, from sunup to sundown, Jesus would have toiled in the royal city, building palatial houses for the Jewish aristocracy during the day, returning to his crumbling mud-brick home at night. He would have witnessed for himself the rapidly expanding divide between the absurdly rich and the indebted poor. He

Mississippi is the center of the universe," he said. "The two biggest issues in western Christian civilization are the white-black race issue and the rich-and-poor issue. Mississippi is at the apex of both. And if anybody in the world can solve the problem, it's Mississippi.

In Clarendon County for the school year 1949-50, they spent $179 per white child in the public schools; for each black child, they spent $43.