Quotes About Social justice

We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.

America, the self-described greatest nation on Earth, has the highest incarceration rate on the planet.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton.

My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.

One of the goals of classical education is to discern the appropriate manner by which the mistreated and oppressed can challenge their oppressors without destroying their civilization.

for all the lip service that the social justice warriors give to 'diversity,' they don't actually care about one of the most fundamental forms of diversity – neurodiversity.

It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it. — Shaw's Preface

God made them, wrote one man who said his son was homosexual. They did not choose their status. ... It is not a medical matter. ... You know there are quite as many people among them as among your so called 'normal.' ... Let your campagin remove the penal laws which make these 'diseased' people a prey for mackmailers. Give them recognition and let them live their lives.'

start with values, preferably values all Americans share such as security, prosperity, opportunity, freedom

What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There

Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives

All this talk of equality remains merely on paper. In real life, women are still bound by several psychological shackles and emotional boundaries imposed on them by their families and others. If a girl comes home late, she is asked 100 questions, whereas boys are not answerable for anything. And this prevails across segments.