Quotes About Social justice

Social justice remained crucial to their piety, as Louis Massignon, the late French scholar, has explained: The mystic call is as a rule the result of an inner rebellion of the conscience against social injustices, not only those of others but primarily and particularly against one's own faults with a desire intensified by inner purification to find God at any price.

The God who may have inspired the first successful peasants' uprising in history is a God of revolution. In all three faiths, he has inspired an ideal of social justice, even though it has to be said that Jews, Christians and Muslims have often failed to live up to this ideal and have transformed him into the God of the status quo.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Ognuno secondo le sue capacità; a ognuno secondo i suoi bisogni!

it is the universal class because its sufferings are universal. He thus defined the proletariat in the first instance not as the body of factory workers but as the metaphysical demiurge destined to liberate the species from social inequality: it was as the victim class that it became the redeemer class, the class to end all classes.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

The common enemy is the white man.

A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

Cows is one thing. But one man telling another man where he can go in this country is something else.

A slave is but half a man.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

In terms of morals there is no such thing as 'state.' Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.