Quotes About Social justice

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

The Marxist, anti-cop, anti-family Black Lives Matter movement is not designed to make black lives better, clearly.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.

I remember being taught my place.

My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

To me, greatness does not mean mortgaging the future of our middle class by giving tax cuts to our wealthiest citizens.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

There is no tax policy that better describes how out of touch America's liberals are with the rest of the country than the estate tax. According to the Left, government seizure of a large share of the wealth of an American taxpayer is a moral imperative that serves social justice. Most Americans disagree, big time.

I pray for those we have lost but more personally for those who have lost - the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and so many before you. I know how it feels to get that call that someone you love isn't coming home.

The Tea Party ain't nothing but the Klan in street clothes. I liked 'em better when they were in the sheets, at least I could spot them.

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

Ah, the twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.

The problem is not the size of government but whom the government is for.

Don't separate race from class. Racial discrimination is aggravating class divides, and wider inequality is worsening racial divides.

We're not in trouble because gays want to marry or women want to have some control over when they have babies. We're in trouble because CEOs are collecting exorbitant pay while slicing the pay of average workers, because the titans of Wall Street demand short-term results over long-term jobs, and because of a boardroom culture that tolerates financial conflicts of interest, insider trading, and the outright bribery of public officials through unlimited campaign "donations.