Quotes About Social justice

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and women's rights. These are just issues that are very close to my heart, and I use my own private voice and funds to fight for them and in support of them.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the board.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was kind of a second-class citizen.

The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.

It shouldn't be an issue that we have a black president. Gay marriage shouldn't be an issue. And women being funny shouldn't be an issue.

Darling, I want my gay rights now.

I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

I've never done gender politics - I think our vote is too important to give away on any single issue.