Quotes About Social justice

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

Are you like all other men after all? The poor should have no justice, just as they have no food, no decent shelter, no regular livelihood? Is that how your saviour Jesus treated the poor?

Empathy is not enough, there must be advocacy. - Jeanne Jones in MIXED: Exploring What It Means To Be Blended In America

You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals.

Men get the war they deserve.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

We have to make our economy work for everyone - not just those at the top - protecting our country and protecting our planet.

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body - not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

My father would be very concerned about the environment. He'd be disappointed that we have hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions of people who are living out on the streets in the wealthiest nation on the planet. He'd be greatly disappointed because he would know that we can, and we must, do better.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.