Quotes About Social justice

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, 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.

Differences in racial outcomes are not the same thing as institutional racism any more than the fact that far more men than women are locked up is evidence of institutional sexism.

I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black gentleman, a leader - someone like Martin Luther King who was doing something for black people.

If I was to go around as a white woman, a white man, an Asian woman, an Asian man... the world would just respond to you so differently because of your outward form, right?

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

There's no free lunch . . . unless you're an illegal alien.

Silence equals death.

By the end of his sixteen-course meal in Buckingham Palace, Ramsay McDonald discovered he had changed his mind about the workers owning the means of production. From now on, he felt it better that the Dukes and Duchesses should continue to own the means of production. The workers would just have to make do with what was left over.

Jed Lamb might have been a junkman, but he was also a true white man.

The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal status as citizen, thats precisely what the modern Labour Party should stand for

But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

The first duty of society is justice. ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757–1804)

One young woman was convinced it's part of the plan: by keeping everyone poor no one has time to organize to topple the system; they have to devote all their time and energy to the pursuit of the next meal.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

There is a difference in claiming for victim hood and standing up and saying the plain field is not level.

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.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

By 1995, some 7 percent of all African American adult males were interned [in prison]. As Loic Wacquant has remarked, the state of New York counts more men of color in its prisons than in its public universities. It is important to note that these trends reflect changes in policy rather than changes in behavior.

People are forced by their better judgment to ask very basic questions: Is it possible, how is it possible, to have more meaning and honor in work? to put wealth to some real use? to have a high standard of living of whose quality we are not ashamed? to get social justice for those who have been shamefully left out? to have a use of leisure that is not a dismaying waste of a hundred million adults?

Bad judgement and carelessness are not punishable by rape.

We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).

want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.