Quotes About Social justice

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Like 90 percent of Ivy League professors, Hollywood celebrities, and late-night TV hosts, the media are also all in for Obama's 'transformative change' and 'social justice.' They've never met a race card slander they didn't like.

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice.

In recent years, the term "woke" has been widely used to describe those who've attained doctrinal purity in regard to the social justice movement. While that movement is secular, it seems to fulfill many of the psycho-spiritual appetites once served by religion.

And even those who would like to believe in egalitarianism must ask themselves why we have to be equal only in poverty.

Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter

Now, if you want me to get out of the world, you had better get the women votin' soon. I shan't go till I can do that.

My greatest challenge as a teacher educator has been to help white students and students of color understand that racism is not simply a personal attitude or individual disposition and that feeling guilty or "being nice" are not enough to combat racism.

this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a different image of america. this country might have needed shoot/ outs/daily/ once. but. there ain't no mo real/white/ allamerican bad/guys. just. u & me. blk/and un/armed. this country might have been a pion eer land. once. and it still is. check out the falling gun/shells on our blk/tomorrows.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Do the right thing

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.

The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.

Fired up by the punk explosion, they wrote their first song—"Storming Tarragona." Named after the down-at-heel housing development where Boon lived, the song was about tearing down the projects and building real houses for people to live in. Boon and Watt, it turned out, had a powerful populist streak. "D. Boon didn't think our dads got a fair shake," Watt says, "and I think he was kind of railing against that ever since.

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

His experience with Household Finance had disabused him of any hope that the government would intercede to prevent rich corporations from doing bad things to poor people.

And he explained that they avoided free checking because it was really a tax on poor people—in the form of fines for overdrawing their checking accounts.

Tears and hugs and saying I'm sorry is a good first step, but for me, the question is not one of changing the hearts of individuals as [much as] it is dealing with the systems and the structures that are devastating African-American people."43