Quotes About Social justice

Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

There was a protest outside the Gilead Consulate in Toronto, but it wasn't well attended: Melanie and Neil weren't famous, and they weren't politicians. I didn't know whether to be sad or angry. Melanie and Neil being murdered made me angry, and so did remembering nice things they'd done when they were alive. But things that should have made me angry, such as why Gilead was being allowed to get away with it, only made me sad.

My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

It's time for America to get right.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

If the law does not do justice, the people will mock the law.

We deserve quality lives with equality.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

African Americans are still more likely to be poor, unemployed, and incarcerated and suffer from worse health than whites. The