Quotes About Social justice

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

Life is the great civil rights issue of our day

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

We've been doing work outside of the anthem since the beginning. Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues. The anthem protests or demonstrations just brought eyes and attention to it.

I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I've been involved in. We've raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda.

Rosewood is what Americans did to Americans. We have to hold the mirror up... and look at ourselves. Sometimes that's an ugly sight. And sometimes you have to go through that pain - both black America and white America - so we can finally find some racial harmony.

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

To me, saying you're not a feminist should be like saying you're a racist. It should be that politically unacceptable.

At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.