Quotes About Social justice

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.

People return home from prison and face legal discrimination in virtually all areas of social and economic and political life. They are legally discriminated against employment, barred from public housing, and denied other public benefits.

I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Came a time when people of conscience had to take a stand.

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

If the great body of the people have clamored for our comrades' blood, it was because they believed what the lying monopolistic press has said.

People that are, you know, constantly alert to every injustice in society, every perceived slight, and who are just desperate to let you know when they've found one. They seek them out with all the urgency of truffling pigs.

Here's a definition of Wokeism : There are people just sitting there, who are deliberately waiting, for the thrill of being offended.

There's no happiness in a situation where there's disparity.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.