Quotes About Social justice

The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs to be ideally progressive to achieve that goal.

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

With proper governance, life will improve for all.

When you are running the country it means you work for the poor people. It doesn't mean you siphon off money of disabled people. It does not mean you allot public property like coal for free to rich people.

One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

You can't fine somebody for a peaceful protest.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!

Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.

I've heard a lot of people say you need white athletes to get involved in the anthem protests. I've said before I'll never kneel for an anthem, because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers.

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

Jerry Falwell would be responsible for the raising of all illegitimate children who had no homes;

By calling in the Vigilantes, we are asking them to do what we can't or won't do ourselves.

Will you for God's sake get off that subject?" Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

'12 Angry Men' has a truly great collection of actors giving fantastic performances. It's an acting masterclass.

I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.