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Quotes About Social justice

It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his bootstraps. —DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
America is going to hell if we don't use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
From the communists he took the notion of the vanguard party, which would tell the masses what they wanted, regardless of whether the masses wanted it or not, and vague notions of a just future where all would be equal. From the Nazis, Jamaat, and its partners in the Arab Muslim Brotherhood, took the Jewish conspiracy theory.
~ Nick Cohen
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
~ Noam Chomsky
If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!
~ Noel Ignatiev
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
~ Norman Borlaug
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
~ Norman Borlaug
It bothered me very much that they took both women away. The fat crazy woman had been permitted to go about her business until someone resisted. Then both victim and victimizer were treated as equally guilty.
~ Octavia E. Butler
They say we have no business wasting time or money in space when there are so many people suffering here on Earth, here in America.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
~ Olympe de Gouges
In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».
~ Oriana Fallaci
Prawo niesie ze sobÄ… obowiÄ…zek, a ci którzy nie wypeÅ'niajÄ… swoich obowiÄ…zków, nie zasÅ'ugujÄ… na ?adne prawa
~ Oriana Fallaci
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
~ Orrin Woodward
Philanthropy has the power to ensure all people have an equal opportunity to achieve their full potential.
~ Unknown
Por cada segundo que pasa sin que aspiremos a democratizar los lugares donde se decide lo importante, aumenta sin cesar el enriquecimiento privado ilegítimo y el sufrimiento gratuito de la gente corriente.
~ Unknown
Contra-revolucionário é aquele que luta contra a revolução, mas também é contra-revolucionária a pessoa que utiliza sua influência para conseguir uma casa, depois para conseguir dois carros, depois viola o racionamento e, por fim, tem tudo o que o povo não tem.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~ Unknown
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."   —Albert Einstein, Renown Scientist
~ Unknown
The far Left has never gotten over communism and once again demonstrates that its true passion is not freedom, but slavery in the name of justice.
~ Pascal Bruckner
Self-definitions of Black womanhood were designed to resist the negative controlling images of Black womanhood advanced by Whites as well as the discriminatory social practices that these controlling images supported.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
~ Patrick J. Kennedy
I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us from the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent.
~ Paul Beatty
I refuse the blindfold and take the most glorious toke ever taken in the history of pot smoking. Call every racially profiled, abortion-denied, flag-burning, Fifth Amendment taker and tell them to demand a re-trial, because I'm getting high in the highest court in the land.
~ Paul Beatty
separate and not quite equal, but infinitely better off than ever before.
~ Paul Beatty