Quotes About Social justice

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Through protest - especially in the 1950s and '60s - we, as a people, touched greatness. Protest, not immigration, was our way into the American Dream. Freedom in this country had always been relative to race, and it was black protest that made freedom an absolute.

It's easy to look at a show with a diverse cast that's touching on topics that haven't been talked about and to think, 'Oh, this is just political correctness; this is just box ticking.'

While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination - against men.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

Top 1 Percent progressivism emphasizes the idea of fairness - but it's nevertheless a politics of outrage, animated by at least a trace of envy. It's as if 'millionaires and billionaires' were the principal problem facing America today.

The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

I learned that, to a trade unionist, strikebreakers—scabs—are the lowest form of human life.

I'm always one sentence away from bringing up democracy, religious freedom, the rights of minorities, all of these in danger.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation's slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.

Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list—I've got a little list.Of society offenders who might well be underground,And who never would be missed—who never would be missed.

We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.