Quotes About Social justice

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.

As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

The thing is, getting rid of racism is a cultural thing that takes decades. It's not something we can solve immediately. Structural changes have to happen in our culture.

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water fountains and bathrooms in the south. But the struggle lives on.

Like Gandhi, my husband had struggled with the issue of materialism.

I was born outraged. I was born without, knowing my people were not counted, not included, not centered. I struggled through low-resourced schools, communities, and housing projects.

As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder than it's taken off you and swapped for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the crown jewels.

Most Labour members are genuine anti-racists who oppose antisemitism.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

Such is the sense of entitlement of Boris Johnson and his establishment class - they believe they can break the law without the consequences meeting ordinary people.

We need to learn how to organize, not just to let our anger explode. We need to have organization for the long run, not for one issue, not for one murder, but for everything coming to us in the next 20, 30 years.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?