Quotes About Social justice

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours. Oxford University Press: USA, 2001

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.

Instead of involving themselves in an all-out attempt to stamp out racism from their white society, liberals waste a lot of time trying to prove to as many blacks as they can find that they are liberal.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.

The black community is under attack in so many different ways.

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.

We punk fans have so much energy to give to the fight against injustice, i.e. the abuse of the poor by the rich, i.e. climate change.

Justice is relative to social meanings. A given society is just if its substantive life is lived in a certain way, in a way that is faithful to the shared understandings of the members.

Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives.

I would love to see the Church on the right side of history.

Each white person gets to be considered on their own terms, and every other group must answer as a whole for the crimes of the one or the few."1

Savant, doesn't it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?

capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.

The concept of whiteness could cover a multitude of sins.