Quotes About Social justice

Democrats could never accept the fact that "civil rights" was about correcting specific and severe injustices done to American blacks, principally because they were the ones who had perpetrated the injustices.

A man might not like it, but men had so many advantages that it didn't matter if occasionally they had to do stuff they didn't think was really fair.

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

I am not here to entertain straight people.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

Which came first, the protest or the law?

Buddha said that if you want to eradicate crime, the economic conditions of the people have to be improved.

He only said what Christianity has never been able to follow, that within it all are equal and this is to be its witness and challenge to the world outside.

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

Total liberty for Black people or total destruction for America.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

It is important that women think beyond the mere moment through which we are passing and acquaint themselves with all phases of life and conditions in our own country. I think we shall have fulfilled our mission well if when our time comes to give up active wok in the world we can say we never saw a wrong without trying to right it; we never intentionally left unhappiness where a little effort would have turned it into happiness, and we were more critical of ourselves than we were of others.

We overlook the two major factors: they rarely know what we are talking about when we speak of freedom in the abstract; their most pressing problem, from birth to death, now as it always has been, is hunger.

I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we end up shattering our self-hatred, shame, silence, and isolation, the goal is the same: to end our daily material oppression.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Democracy without meritocracy is just hypocrisy and no different from autocracy.

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.

Two Wongs do not make a white.