Quotes About Social justice

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

There's nothing wrong with being help. But it's very wrong that we presume people of colour are in a subservient position. That's problematic.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it the motherfuckers who need god we'd be aight

government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did.

North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Slavery was in fact a legal punishment inflicted on those, for example, who could not pay their fines.

those who have enough to spend on luxuries, yet fail to share even a tiny fraction of their income with the poor, must bear some responsibility for the deaths they could have prevented.

If it is so easy to help people in real need through no fault of their own, and yet we fail to do so, aren't we doing something wrong? At a minimum, I hope this book will persuade you that there is something deeply askew with our widely accepted views about what it is to live a good life.