Quotes About Social justice

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

We have always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

Children, I confess, are not born in this state of equality, though they are born to it.

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man. Come what will, my whole soul rejoices in the truth that I have uttered.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Sozialistin oder Feministin?' 'Ich könnte doch beides sein. Der Wunsch, dass es für Frauen gerechter zugeht, gehört doch zum Wunsch dazu, dass es für alle gerechter zugeht. Oder nicht?

un Estado social y democrático de derecho, una democracia plena y avanzada.

We do not have the right in the name of social justice to bore anyone to death.

The panel was selected from the voting rolls, and, since candidates running for office seldom represent the interests of Black and poor people, Blacks and the poor don't vote. But failing to vote means they don't sit on juries.

Northern whites were more than happy at the prospect of Black people fighting in the war. A popular verse published in the newspapers of the day reflected the sentiment of many Northerners: Some say it is a burnin' shame To make the naygurs fight An' that the trade o' bein' kilt Belongs but to the white; But as for me upon me sowl, So liberal are we here, I'll let Sambo be murthered in place o' meself On every day in the year.

I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon.

History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privileges, then they are "liberals." But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull off that liberal mask and you think you're talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so-called underprivileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges.

Arrogance was one of the factors that kept the white left so factionalized.

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.

I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.