Quotes About Social justice

Parents of all girls must simultaneously explain overt and covert sexism, name it whenever they see it, and teach their daughters to do the same.

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

You hear blacks are good in sports and good singers. But you don't hear about black lawyers or black politicians. I learned things later, but went through some hurt before I learned - before I had a better picture of black people and a better understanding of myself.

Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular acts, and if we're good, moral people, we can't be racist - we don't engage in those acts.

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

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

Resist, however peacefully and even in your own home, and heaven help you, no matter what your skin color.

I didn't think it was fair for anyone to tell Indians that their children couldn't have lights to study by, or that thousands of Indians should die in heat waves because installing air conditioners is bad for the environment.

No one is responsible, nobody is to blame... Either all are guilty or none...

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Sería concebible para un jurado inglés que pudiera existir un negro que no robara ni mintiera? ¿Un negro que fuera una persona respetable? No parecía probable.

Um sistema moral que pune a mulher e isenta o homem de toda a culpa me parece assaz execrável.

Don't assume, when a lady wants to take up a task or a cause, that is just a hobby.

The crucial point is not how much somebody pays in taxes but rather how much she has left after paying. This biblical lesson has been invoked time and again to justify a tax code that calls on the rich to pay higher rates than the poor.

The widest definition of "wealthy" is in India, where a 1% wealth tax kicks in for anybody whose net worth is more than 3 million rupees, which comes to about $45,000. (In India, that still means a small percentage of the population.)

How many black boys Jamil's age would one day end up staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun because of a quick assumption, or fear?

Not everyone can be equal in wealth, but no one should have to starve.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

Ma a chi piace la violenza fine a sé stessa? Piaceva a Trotsky, piaceva al Che? Solo i nazisti (che per me costituiscono una specie di categoria mentale al di fuori di ogni periodo storico e di ogni localizzazione nazionale, dagli assiri alle SS) trovano nella violenza una specie di riscatto della debolezza [...].