Quotes About Social justice

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

People would rather be equal thank free.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.