Quotes About Social justice

If you can't afford housing then the right to vote is a bad joke.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It's like a software program that we use to cope with the world and get along with each other, and one of the most effective we have ever invented, because we are all in this together. When you realize that acting with justice and generosity turns out to be the most effective technology for dealing with other people, that's a good thing.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.

Pro-immigrationists seem to think that countries have a moral duty to accept not just refugees but also people from poverty-stricken lands who seek jobs and a better future.

A igualdade só pode ser assegurada se forem diminuídas as liberdades daqueles que estão em melhores condições. Garantir que cada indivíduo seja livre para fazer o que desejar inevitavelmente compromete a igualdade.

Paradise, the capitalists promise, is right around the corner. True, mistakes have been made such as the Atlantic slave trade and the exploitation of the European working class, but we have learned our lesson and if we just wait a little longer and allow the pie to grow a little bigger, everybody will receive a fatter slice.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

The white man knows how to make everything," he said, "but he does not know how to distribute it.

We didn't create society for men, we created it to stop men.

appears that strong personal, institutional, and cultural forces work against antiracist actions on the part of White Americans who become liberated and aware of the dynamics of racism and Whiteness.

The inability to see how the assumptions and biased practices exist in one's own beliefs and behaviors allows Whites to operate in a vacuum of naïveté and innocence that distances them from responsibility or the knowledge that their unawareness fosters complicity in the inequities of our society.

For persons of color, dealing with bias and prejudice is a day-to-day occurrence. If Whites are to be helpful, their lives must also be a constant "have to" in dealing with racism.