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Quotes About Social justice

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl
~ Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
~ Frederick Douglass
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
~ Tom Hayden
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
~ Agnes Varda
A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.
~ Michelle Alexander
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
~ Audre Lorde
Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.
~ Mike Jackson
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
~ Henry George
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
~ Robert Kennedy
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It's the Gospel. So, finally, I'M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.
~ Benjamin Watson
Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.
~ David Sirota
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
~ Robert Owen
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
~ Susan B. Anthony
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
~ Shirley Chisholm
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.
~ Kailash Satyarthi
Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.
~ Evo Morales
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.
~ Alejandro Castro Espin
This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.
~ Riyad Mansour
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
~ George Bernard Shaw