Quotes About Social justice

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going on the turf, can stop one mugging, can keep one promising youth from becoming a drug addict, so long as the force that drives the owners of our civilization is away from those who own nothing at all.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn't just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

Among her many accomplishments, my mother is often identified as the leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday movement.

Movements like Time's Up and #MeToo are putting the problems out there and creating conversations about the issues, and that's really how the healing process starts.