Quotes About Social justice

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

Magna carta. Master charga.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Some people make enough, some people don't, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.