Quotes About Social justice

Innocence and guilt are legal concepts which have little relevance to the political world,

If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.

In the mid-1990s, New York City was spending $58,000 annually per adult inmate and $70,000 for each juvenile at Rikers.[6] In 2013, the annual cost per inmate was $167,000.[7] Over the last two decades this amounts to eight to ten times what the city spends on each child in its public schools.

Such groups are often forced to live on the edge of social legality and, even when engaged in fully legal behavior, they are presented and hunted as criminals. Such has been the fate of groups like the Young Lords, and, again, the Black Panther Party, as well as "gangs" in the poor communities of Los Angeles and Chicago, for example, whose offenses were often mixed with programs aiming at social renewal and liberation.

Although African Americans are usually no more than 13 percent of the U.S. population, 40 percent of state death row populations are African American. In some states, like Pennsylvania, 60 percent of the death row population is African American. On federal death row, over 60 percent are from communities of color.

It is cynical, often hypocritical, and self-defeating to declare all drug offenders violent and then withdraw from them, especially from the poor among them, the resources needed to redress the problems that create drug use.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.

O, dicho más brutal: ¿por qué no toleramos la desigualdad por géneros o razas pero sí por riqueza?)

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong

It is not fitting that one man should live in idleness on another's labor, or be rich and live comfortably at the cost of another's hardship

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.