Quotes About Social justice

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

True happiness is everyone's good, not personal comfort when many, too many live in poverty and despair.

Hunger is not debatable.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

People are dying in vain because America isn't holding their end of the bargain up, as far as giving freedom and justice, liberty to everybody. That's something that's not happening.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Liberals are not unconcerned with economic liberty, but they have come to believe that the common good requires that social justice be given a higher priority than absolute economic freedom.

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.