Quotes About Social justice

How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?

He was, in fact, an immensely human figure, as talented as he was complex, at once brilliant and naïve, a passionate advocate for social justice and a tireless government adviser whose commitment to harnessing a runaway nuclear arms race earned him powerful bureaucratic enemies. As his friend Rabi said, in addition to being "very wise, he was very foolish.

As she sat in the House Committee anteroom waiting to testify, she looked out the window and was startled by the contrast between Capitol Hill's marble government buildings, surrounded by manicured grounds, and the rows of tumbledown houses occupied by the city's Negro population. The children were barefoot and dressed in rags. "They all looked rachitic and most seemed undernourished. All they had to play with was junk they found in the street.

The bottom line is that Robert always wished to be, and was, free to think for himself and to make his own political choices. Commitments have to be put in perspective to be understood, and the failure to do that was the most damaging characteristic of the McCarthy period. The most relevant political fact about Robert Oppenheimer was that in the 1930s he was devoted to working for social and economic justice in America, and to achieve this goal he chose to stand with the left.

Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you're choking on it — until you let the sun in. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands.

What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn't make me any less black or invested in black issues, the same way him being a man doesn't make me any less of a feminist.

'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.

I'm a proud feminist, people get irritated with that word... but we need feminism in our country.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.

I'm a big James Baldwin fan.

Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.

Desegregation is a joke.

Es también evidente afirmar que, si las condiciones político-sociales son autoritarias o, cuando menos no ciertamente democráticas, las decisiones judiciales padecerán y con ellas, muy probablemente, quienes las emiten.

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

I see one-third of a nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished...the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those that have too little

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.

The relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.