Quotes About Social justice

It's illegal to yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, right?" "It is." "Well, I've whispered 'Racism' in a post-racial world.

As a politician, if you are really interested in tackling inequality to ensure that as many people as possible have 'just enough', then you need to ensure that the rich stop using, as Stiglitz puts it, 'their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending'.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

The current human rights movement in Africa - with the possible exception of the women's rights movement and faith-based social justice initiatives - appears almost by design to exclude the participation of the people whose welfare it purports to advance.' - Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

The Civil War won formal rights for Negroes, but failed to win social justice and factual democracy. The actual result has been segregation, and fear and ignorance for both whites and blacks.

The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.

Qui sert la bourgeoisie ne sert pas les hommes.

The United States drove itself to civil war because the society valued profits over Black humanity,

I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Politics is not about power.

Wells-Barnett's experience with the ways that lynching victims were criminalized, and her progressive belief in the ability of persons to change for the better, gave her another perspective.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic.

I must intervene in teaching the peasants that their hunger is socially constructed and work with them to help identify those responsible for this social construction, which is, in my view, a crime against humanity. Therefore, we need to intervene not only pedagogically but also ethically.

Concern for humanization leads at once to the recognition of dehumanization, not only as an ontological possibility but as an historical reality.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Major offenses like this one, as well as minor indignities, or what psychologist Chester Pierce (1995) referred to as micro-aggressions, are so common and pervasive that for many parents, preparing their Black sons for the likelihood of an

There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...

shared witness against injustice could marshal triumphs that wars never could.