Quotes About Social justice

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

We can prevent many people from becoming terrorists by truly listening to people who feel they've been treated unjustly and responding to their concerns with a sense of justice and compassion.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

We need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.

All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.

Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness, something that the show's more militant characters can't see.

Few news stories can demonstrate the stark difference between conservatism and liberalism like the George Zimmerman trial has done.

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

Manmohan Singh, during his tenure as Prime Minister, said that Muslims have first right over the resources of this country. Where will the Dalits, backward, women, tribal, and others go?

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.