Quotes About Social justice

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Chevron's failure to adhere to basic standards of decency undermines the credibility of our capitalist model and diminishes confidence that our judicial system can serve the poor as well as the rich.

There are so many double standards, not just in rap, but everywhere.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

Necessitous men are not free men.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Law never made men a whit more just.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.