Quotes About Social justice

Believers are expected to be involved in what Judaism calls tikkun-ha'olam, repairing the world. Tikkun-ha'olam is deeply embedded in the Jewish ethic; for this reason even secular Jews usually find themselves concerned with bettering society.

Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

America is the greatest sin against God.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.