Quotes About Social justice

Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strange them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

King told the staff he believed "there must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism….

The southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow, so that when he had no money for food, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than a black man.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

Never, never be afraid to do what is right. Society's punishments are small compare to the wounds we inflict on our souls when we look away

History has shown that, like a virulent disease germ, racism can grow and destroy nations.

They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.

A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be build on ten thousand ruined men who were left without the means of life.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Reading Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar bridges the gap between what most Indians are schooled to believe in and the reality we experience every day of our lives.

Can starving people go on a hunger strike? And do hunger strikes work when they're not on TV?

If you are deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night.

If you conquer the bread problem, that gives you at least a chance to look around at the others.

I might add here that in no socialist country that I have visited have I found an absence of racism or of sexism, so the eradication of both of these diseases seems to involve more than the abolition of capitalism as an institution.

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters.

The old sexual power relationships based on a dominant/subordinate model between unequals have not served us as a people, nor as individuals.

but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery

The creed was originally about the fact that race, class, and gender are typically used to divide the human race into us and them to the advantage of us. It aimed to declare that there is no us, no them. We are all children of God. It was about solidarity, not cultural obliteration.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.