Quotes About Social justice

I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of power. So the cleaners and bin men would have a lot more bargaining power.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and particularly our poor Black and Brown communities.

I deplore sexual harassment.

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

I believe in free education, free healthcare. But I do not believe in equality.

Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.

Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

I want to make sure we have elected people constantly looking at helping the African-American community.

Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

I have no particular love for the idealized 'worker' as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Todos los hombres son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.

If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.

This meal we just ate? says Aunt Lydia. In many countries, this sort of meal would only be eaten by royalty. There are countries where people could live one year on what we throw out in one week, says Grandpa Kirk. I thought it was they could live one year on what we throw out in one day, says Grandma Sally. I thought it was they could live ten years on what we throw out in one minute, says Uncle Gus. Well anyway, says Doris. We are very lucky.

A few writers by implication touched upon the true social issue, that equality of rights was an illusion to those lacking the means to use it.

It is not that they are unconcerned with social liberation and justice, but that they are convinced such transformation will happen only through the changing of individual hearts.

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.