Quotes About Social justice

Capitalism is founded on the selective application of freedom among the few at the expense of everyone else.

If you're picturing Farmer Juan and his family gratefully wiping sweat from their brows when you buy that Ecuadorian banana, picture this instead: the CEO of Dole Inc. in his air-conditioned office in Westlake Village, California. He's worth $1.4 billion; Juan gets about $6 a day. Much money is made in the global reshuffling of food, but the main beneficiaries are processors, brokers, shippers, supermakets, and oil companies.

If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they'd know how that fine salad got on their table.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

In Los Angeles from 1940 to 1945, the white population rose less than 20 percent, while the black population increased nearly 110 percent. Yet only 5 percent of the city's residential areas allowed blacks.

Some of the issues with identity politics are critical moral issues. But we've got to show America that we don't have a plan just on these so-called identity politics issues, but that we have a plan for the economy, that we know how to provide for a strong national defense.

There's a lot of talk now about the PC police, and 'why is everything bad?' It isn't. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.

It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.

Kulanu is the only party actually championing social issues.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

If a girl you're on a date with expresses ideals similar to those expressed by social justice bullies, end the date.

I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.