Quotes About Social justice

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white's front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.

We are not asking for superiority for we have always had that; all we ask is equality.

A feminism that is truly anti-racist and anti-imperialist must also be anticapitalist.

Unlike others before him, Oglethorpe felt the disadvantaged could be reclaimed if they were given a fair chance.

sharecropper's rhythmic chant (circa 1917): "I'd druther be a Nigger, an' plow ole Beck, Dan a white Hill Billy wid his long red neck."36

Liberation theology often ends up as little more than theological frosting on a Marxist cake.

Men are no longer permitted to vote – because their years of violence and degradation have shown that they are not fit to rule or govern.

Text after text, scholars never tired of trying to compensate for sentencing women to eternal drudgery, which they themselves abhorred, by dreaming up fancy ways of labeling it, easing their consciences and allowing them to view their self-serving little world of men-gods as a fair, nay noble, thing.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

The time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

How far are we willing to extend our freedoms? Where is the Exodus for people convicted of innocent, consensual crimes?

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

grievance into a succinct and pithy phrase, while mobilizing the people to combat it. Our slogan

an immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.

Se dice que nadie conoce realmente un país hasta haber pasado por sus cárceles. No se debe juzgar a una nación por cómo trata a sus miembros más encumbrados, sino por cómo trata a los más humildes.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones – and South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like animals.

A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones - and South Africa treated its imprisoned African citizens like animals.

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El agua que bebo, la comida que como, la ropa que uso, la cama donde duermo; todo está determinado por la política, sea ésta buena o mala. La

sex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue.

If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention

The unfortunate reality is that women's issues are marginalized, and in any case sex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women's issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.

The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn't understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion a year in taxes—enough to pay for high-quality pre-K and day care for all.