Quotes About Social justice

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.

A change is gonna come.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great

Still, there is space for this secular movement that has become frustrated with the liberal experience. In my opinion, there is a need for an effort that helps he establishment of social justice while taking into consideration all the qualifications and reservations against the welfare state.

But the unhappy truth is that today's public schools have rejected the values of the Founding Fathers and adopted values from nineteenth-century European social utopians that completely contradict our own concepts of individual freedom. And they have invented new values under the umbrella of "social justice" in order to advance society toward their idea of moral perfection.

Focusing on sufficient protections, human rights norms and politics have selectively emphasized one aspect of social justice, scanting in particular the distributional victory of the rich. It is as if in our highest ethics, material gains for the poor were all that could matter, either morally or strategically, when human rights placed any stress on material injustice at all.

But strictly speaking, human rights do not necessarily call for a modicum of distributive equality. And a concern for human rights, including economic and social rights, has risen as moral commitments to distributive equality fell.

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].

Let's take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people's joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

Indeed so often just talking about sexism as well as racism is heard as damaging the institution. If talking about sexism and racism is heard as damaging institutions, we need to damage institutions.

Contrary to what Comstock and the physicians on the jury seemed to believe, women in distress could find a way to end an unwanted pregnancy, so long as they could pay for it. For every case that came to public view because something went terribly wrong, there were a hundred or more that remained a private matter.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

Every time a police agency pepper-sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Here's the deal: in a perfect world, sanitary protection would be freely available to all.

For one thing she [Alice Hayward] possessed that passionate love of abstract justice which has become more a woman's than a man's trait, in our modern civilisation.

Berlin recuerda a menudo las pruebas históricas de que no hay justicia que haya resultado de una política injusta o libertad que naciera de la opresión. Ambos, por eso, creen que en cuestiones sociales son siempre preferibles los éxitos parciales pero efectivos a las grandes soluciones totalizadoras, fatalmente quiméricas.