Quotes About Social justice

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.

There is so much inequality and injustice in America, and COVID-19 has exposed that even more. We have to really understand that this is a wake up call; this is a time of action.

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

Violence, poverty and health disparities have many inputs.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women's rights and civil rights and LGBT rights than conversations about Russian interference.

We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot.

esse não era só um monólogo, só uma peça, mas também um poderoso catalisador de conscientização e justiça.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

With the support of leftist intellectuals and the Catholic Church, the MST has become much more than a movement of the poor. It boasts 1.5 million members, including television stars, samba singers, and other celebrities at home and abroad.

All that may be true, but I cannot recognize that the negro man is the only one who has pressing claims at this hour. To-day our government needs woman's conscience as well as man's judgment. And while I would not throw a straw in the way of the colored man, even though I know that he would vote against me as soon as he gets his vote, yet I do think that woman should have some power to defend herself from oppression, and equal laws as if she were a man.

government is to protect the rights of the low from the tyranny of the high and not the property of the high from the desperation of the low.

We are not going to build a Utopia on Earth. Why? Because of human nature. Sin keeps us from building a paradise on Earth. But we are to work for social justice—that is our command in Scripture—we're to do all we can so both we and others can live a peaceable and free life, and a life of human dignity. Only Christ can change hearts, but that does not mean that we neglect social and political relationships.

I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong—racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.

We must redefine what radical means. We're living through a technology revolution which is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. It will change everything and therefore everything should change including radical reorientation of government. This is the context in which we tackle inequality, promote social justice and redistribute power.