Quotes About Social justice

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.

In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as fully established that sometimes between the socialist working women and those belonging to the middle class, there may be antagonisms.

I'm a socialist.

When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

I'm a huge feminist, I majored in sociology at college, and I care about what I put into the world.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty and inequality.

What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.

If you're a white candidate, it is twice as important for you to be talking about racial inequity and not just describing the problem - which is fashionable in politics - but actually talking about what we're going to do about it and describing the outcomes we're trying to solve for.

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended by equality because when you've had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.

Some people see protesting as a bit of a dirty thing, and certainly the idea of getting arrested was not on people's radar.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and "develop their personalities" at the former's expense we speak of oppression; when structures and persons that perpetuate powerlessness are replaced by structures that allow people to stand on their own feet and have their own voice, we speak of liberation.2 Both

Perhaps the most terrifying statistic of all that Soares uncovered was that in Albany County (minority population 13 percent) more than 95 percent of imprisoned drug law offenders were black or Hispanic. Whichever way you look at the figure, it can mean only one thing—something is rotten in the state.