Quotes About Social justice

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.

Housing is a human right, not a bargaining chip to let fall between bureaucratic cracks.

No matter how far you think you have come, racism exists.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

The very idea that human beings are held in bondage is sickening.

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

La gente dice: pobres tiene que haber siempre. Y se quedan tan anchos, tan estrechos de miras, tan vacíos de espíritu.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere, is suffering for it.

The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.

To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.

You cannot be against a raise in the minimum wage and for cutting government assistance and still say that you are worried about the people living in poverty.

What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.

You can win a victory in your neighbourhood. You can win a victory in your school. You can win a victory in your place of worship... Be ashamed of your existence until you've done a little something to make the world in which we all must live a little better than it was when you arrived.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'

It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.

I'm distraught as I look at my boys - two are African American and one is Caucasian - because too many people see them differently. None of them should have to think about how law enforcement will treat them if pulled over for rolling through a stop sign.