Quotes About Social justice

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

Once you witness an injustice, you are no longer an observer but a participant." ~ June Callwood.

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah—to 'undo the heavy burdens . . . (and) let the oppressed go free.

If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

if the people who called themselves Christians behaved like Christians, there wouldn't be any people sleeping in the street.

No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

Las mujeres deberían ser libres..., tan libres como nosotros —declaró, descubriendo algo cuyas terribles consecuencias estaba demasiado irritado para medir.

They treat colored people like kings and queens in Washington, cause thas where the president lives. Would they treat colored people anything but good in a city where the president hangs his hat and pets his dog and snores besides Mrs. President every night? Now would they?

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

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Social justice is collective injustice. Actual justice is administered to individuals on the basis of their actions. Social justice is retributive punishment meted out by one party upon another group to enact vengeance and express a nurtured grievance.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.