Quotes About Social justice

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.

The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

We live in a very unequal society.

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, it's time for us to take a hard look at the separate and unequal conditions that still exist in our schools and our communities and rededicate ourselves to fulfilling the promise of equal opportunity for all.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

From the time I was a little girl, I'd just always been naturally curious. And I was raised in a family that... would just get really worked up about inequities and unfairness.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.