Quotes About Social justice

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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

Every country has the government it deserves.

...without equality there can be no democracy.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Teenagers have a legitimate voice. We deserve to have a seat at the table and a place in the conversation. We're not exempt from politics and social movements; we're affected by them.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.