Quotes About Social justice

raise less corn and more hell.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist of doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.

Il faut choisir entre le champagne pour quelques-uns ou l'eau potable pour tous.

Nous ne parlons pas de l'émancipation des femmes par charité, mais parce que pour nous c'est une base nécessaire pour le triomphe de notre révolution".

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

The burden isn't on me to explain it, Rich. The burden's on y'all to fix it. Good luck.

But my contribution to these troubled times will be inciting white women of a certain age to sexually profile Black student athletes who'd really just like to make it to the NBA in peace.

Capital punishment: Them without the capital get the punishment.

This is the richest country in the world. There's no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.

There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

Whether it is crimes against women, whether it's discrimination against women, whether it's just social bias against women - these things should be anomalies; they should not be the norm.

I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North Korean lives?

It's not fair that everybody has to be segregated.

You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

The Government should be taking notice of the youth of today so much more. They're trying to keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor. If I sat down with David Cameron in a room, I would ask him how he feels about it and what the hell he's doing about it.

Have you noticed that the meanest, shrillest, least compassionate and most heartless people who are well off and have all the medical coverage they'll ever need are seemingly sickened beyond cure by the notion that someone who literally cannot afford health care is somehow beneath contempt and must be vilified and humiliated?

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians but to push companies to do right by their workers.

I used to say the wealthiest among us have to pay our fair share, which I still occasionally say. That's not dodging the word 'millionaire.'