Quotes About Social justice

We are perilously close to losing an economy and a democracy that are meant to work for everyone and to replacing them with an economy and a government that will exist mainly for a few wealthy and powerful people.

As the great jurist and Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once said, "We may have democracy or we may have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

A case can be made out for both positions. What distances Keynes most obviously from the 'progressives' is his attitude to social justice. Keynes did not object (or object strongly) to the existing social order on the ground that it unfairly or unjustly distributed life-chances;

The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.

It is this Robin Hood fantasy, or taking from the rich to give to the poor, that has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class.

Growing up in this town, I had long ago learned that the savagery of a man named Mohammed was rarely questioned, but his humanity always had to be proven.

Over many decades technological optimists have been sustained by the belief that whatever happened to be created in the sphere of material/instrumental culture would certainly be compatible with freedom, democracy, and social justice. This amounts to a conviction that all technology—whatever its size, shape, or complexion—is inherently liberating. For reasons noted in the previous chapter, that is a very peculiar faith indeed.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

It's not my fault that it's illegal to marry multiple men at the same time; that's like saying that a gay couple isn't as serious as a straight couple because the straight couple is married, at the same time you make it impossible for the gay couple to marry.

prejudice doesn't go away just because a law changes.

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The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.