Quotes About Social justice

When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, 'Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,' then you suddenly become unreasonable.

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

The White House wants us talking about racism and the justice system because they use it as a springboard to scare Americans about looting, aided by Fox News running episodes of violence on an incessant loop, that their hearts and minds won't be able to look past the fear to see injustice.

It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.

The primary value of a basic income would be its emancipatory effect.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.

International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.

There was a time that human rights was not even an issue in this country. Then prisoners' rights became an issue.

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.