Quotes About Social justice

inequality without implicating God?

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.

The brown world, like the yellow world, is to-day in acute reaction against white supremacy.

Real hunger is when one man regards another man as something to eat.

They brought in a mandatory sensitivity training session—which was fine by Cal, given the way some of the guys treated, for example, witnesses from bad hoods and rape victims, except the session turned out to be all about what words they were and weren't allowed to use; nothing about what they were doing, underneath all the words, and how they could do it better.

There are thousands of kids like us, working across the country to make a sweet for rich kids in other places. Thousands. It's a number that matters to me so much that I can't wrap my mind around it.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The draft," he shouts, "is white people sending black people to make war on yellow people in order to defend the land they stole from red people. The draft must end: not tomorrow, not next week, but today.

And even if what you said in the article is true, about how you "want to raise consciousness about mass incarceration"—let's say this wasn't bullshit—please explain to me what a baby doll is going to do to help anybody in here.

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

Every time Emma Gonzalez speaks, I listen.

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.

I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls.

I do think the issue with trans lives - especially in the Black community - doesn't necessarily lie within racism, but it does lie within prejudice and misogyny, specifically trans-misogyny.

We never had money but it was never a problem. The spirit of comradeship, the commitment to gender equality, social justice and a celebration of pluralism and India's composite culture provided the glue that kept us joyous and closely bonded.

Imagine if everyone spoke out about injustices. We would be in a better place, I think.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance