Quotes About Social justice

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

white guilt was now a greater problem for minorities than white racism. He wanted to reassure them that blacks

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

Any subject that displays inequality or may promote discrimination

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

So I ended my speech that night by quoting from Teddy's letter, hoping that his words would bolster the nation just as they had bolstered me. "What we face," he'd written, "is above all a moral issue; at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country." According to poll data, my address to Congress boosted public support for the healthcare bill, at least temporarily.

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

It is a fact that racial discrimination still exists in the United States and in South America.

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?

These people and vegetarians and so forth that are all about being fair to the races and the gays, I am down with that. I agree. But would it cross any mind to be fair to us? No, it would not. How do I know? TV. The comedy channel is so funny it can make you want to go unlock the gun cabinet and kill yourself. Do they really think that along with being brainless and having sex with animals, we don't even have cable?

A profound, genuine upsurge for social justice can—depending on the overarching ideas and accompanying practices—institutionalize the gravest injustices.

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

Most homicides, Black notes, are really instances of capital punishment, with a private citizen as the judge, jury, and executioner.

Inequality is not the same as poverty, and it is not a fundamental dimension of human flourishing.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.

poseer narcóticos con fines de venta, llevar a cabo delitos para los cuales se organizaron, entre otros, contra la salud en su modalidad de posesión de estupefacientes con fines de comercialización, lo que constituye dato inequívoco, que demuestra la conducta típica consistente en organizarse.» Traduzco: no es necesario cometer un delito para ser un delincuente.

Las costumbres y las leyes pueden establecer derechos y deberes comunes a todos los hombres; pero éstos serán siempre tan desiguales como las olas que erizan la superficie de un océano.

The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.