Quotes About Social justice

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem of this country was not just race, it was class. It was the economical situation of not only poor blacks but also the poor white part of the population and everything in between.

Despite saying the letters 'LGBTQ' at the RNC, Donald Trump consistently endorsed anti-equality positions.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

I encourage people to have those tough conversations just to educate yourself on what goes on and how we can create equality in the world and grow together as one.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Yes, I would love to do more such films that take on issues like corruption.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

We have to deconstruct the idea of racial superiority. We have had it for hundreds of years so it is not going to happen overnight but we have to tackle it in the right way.

Instead of promoting inherited wealth for the few, I want to tackle inherited disadvantage for the many.

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

So let me get this straight: Kaepernick sacrificed his career, dreams, and reputation fighting for social justice because he was shown he couldn't do both - be an activist and be in the league. But in the end, the players coalition allegedly agrees to a deal with a price tag, and Colin's left out of it. Tell me that doesn't feel a little dirty.