Quotes About Social justice

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Contemporary Christians have declared war on individual immorality but seem remarkably silent about the evil of systems, especially corporate greed and malfeasance. (p. 176)

Pen wondered at a world that hanged poor men for thievery, but celebrated great ones

God, lots of psychopaths walked free, in every culture and in every walk of life.

Society is not taking revenge. It is simply eliminating someone who refuses to live by the rules.

Read the Bible. There'd been whites held as slaves for several thousand years before the blacks were enslaved.

He defended them because he believed that every social interest should have its chance.

What right have I to more gay gowns, when some poor babies have none; or to spend time making myself fine, while there is so much bitter want in the world?

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all

Thus, until we have truly become a democracy, every American, white as much as black, red, or yellow, lives not in his skin but on it. If one person is called colored, let all be colored.

The World-Rectifying Catfish targeted the business class, the 1 percent, whose rampant practices of price-fixing, hoarding, and graft had led to economic stagnation and political corruption.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

My success has been based on the issues. It's easy to fight for mental health or needle exchange or small businesses or whatever, because the machine can't interfere.

crimes, but because we know that crimes have

White folks is a miracle of affliction, say Sofia.

If he [God] ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

White folks is a miracle of affliction.

Gli animali della terra esistono per se stessi. Non sono stati fatti per gli umani, così come i negri non sono stati fatti per i bianchi, né le donne per gli uomini

Why can't Tashi come to school? she asked me. When I told her the Olinka don't believe in educating girls she said, quick as a flash, They're like white people at home who don't want colored people to learn.

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute." "They'll become anything for as long as it takes to steal some land.

We the People - shelling the Vietcong

But if the gospel is about God coming to establish his reign of justice and peace over all his creation, then our mission as Christians is to see God's will, his kingly reign, happen in and around us wherever that is possible. It's not just about saving souls but about seeing that the poor are fed and the oppressed are freed.

Why give them a proper burning?" Rulf caught the lad by the arm. "Because if we beat beggars here, we're no better than beggars. If we beat great men, we're greater still.