Quotes About Social justice

You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

If there's one thing that people fail to appreciate about the social justice movement where it interfaces with the academy is that just because what is being said is crazy to the point of absurdity does not mean that the strategic plan is absurd.

The Vulgar sham of the pompous feast Where the heaviest purse is the highest priest The organised charity, scrimped and iced In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ."1 —John Boyle O'Reilly

We don't need guns. We just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating. And stop they will. And for some of you, real damned soon, truth be told.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest

Education is the foundation of a better society, one that values diversity, critical thinking, and a commitment to social justice.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

You've got to be a warrior," her father told her. "There are certain things you might have to do, for the sake of all black people. And no matter what you do as an individual, you're reflecting your group and your family. So make sure you're correct.

We meet from time to talk and argue…about what we as artists can do, how we can express the anguish for the moral situation we find in this country, but not as civil rights pleaders.

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.