Quotes About Social justice

The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign.

The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right," as Martin Luther King Jr. once said. The nation is often wrong. But so long as protest is possible, it can always be righted.

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.

The white pastors who opposed the civil rights movement, and even those who ignored it, were indeed disobeying Paul's theological proclamation that, in Christ, there is no Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female; but all are one in Christ Jesus.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

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Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

Women are still second-class citizens.

We need to try to see individuals in order to do any kind of justice. The idea of a binary world of monsters and saints whose unchanging goodness or badness is evident from one or a few actions, from their poverty, or from their race, is false" - Larry Krasner

When one man knowingly kills another, they call it murder! When society causes the deaths of thousands, they shrug and call it a fact of life.

Funny how, whenever men talked about freedom, they never really meant for the women

Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. —Mother Jones

He was trying to get me to come inside and away from the scene, but I said, "No." I said, "We have to stay here and watch because this is wrong.

Suffrage didn't mean equal opportunity.

I once watched in awe as a New York City tenant lawyer exclaimed, "Good!" when she was shown statistics about declining white male incomes.

We do not believe that capitalism, or any economic system, is the cause of female oppression, nor do we believe that female oppression will disappear as a result of purely economic revolution.

We shower money on generals and on nobles, we keep high-born paupers living on the national charity, we squander wealth with both hands on army and navy, on churches and palaces; but we grudge every halfpenny that increases the education rate and howl down every proposal to build decent houses for the poor. We cover our heartlessness and indifference with fine phrases about sapping the independence of the poor and destroying their self-respect.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.

It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.