Quotes About Social justice

One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

The privileged liberal position: "There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.

It is written, we musn't forget, in the Prisonhouse of Nations —the United States of America. Here, there are more than 2.3 million men, women, and juveniles under lock and key. As theNewYork Timeshas recently reported, the U.S. has just under 5 percent of the world's population, yet it has a quarter of the world's prison population.1 In the realm of imprisonment, the United States truly is Number one.

Jugée petite-bourgeoise par les gauches, la cause des femmes est aussi présentée comme le cheval de Troie de l'impérialisme ; et dans le meilleur des cas, comme soluble dans la libération de la nation.

His favorite hero was El Látigo Negro, the Black Whip. El Látigo Negro was on TV every Saturday. He wore a black mask and rescued poor people from evil capitalists.

A great man has said that racism is the biggest cancer of his lifetime. But just because he can't cure that cancer didn't mean he shouldn't attack it in small ways." "Martin Luther King?" I asked. Judge Potter shook his head. "Charles Barkley.

there is no humane way to rule people against their will.

The vast majority of the victims of the Southern Cone's terror apparatus were not members of armed groups but non-violent activists working in factories, farms, shantytowns and universities. They were economists, artists, psychologists and left-wing party loyalists. They were killed not because of their weapons (which most did not have) but because of their beliefs.

A culture that places so little value on black and brown lives that it is willing to let human beings disappear beneath the waves, or set themselves on fire in detention centers, will also be willing to let the countries where black and brown people live disappear beneath the waves, or desiccate in the arid heat.

No matter how "right on" the upper-middle class was, no matter the social-justice proclamations of my former liberal, affluent urban "tribe," no one really expressed any objection to this unequal distribution of risk and harm.

Kein Mensch bekämpft die Freiheit; er bekämpft höchstens die Freiheit der anderen.

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman understands. And

As a movement, feminism arose because women were being sinned against. I think that is a fair argument. But feminism also arose because women were sinning in response. That's a classic human problem: Sinners tend to sin in response to being sinned against.

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle—the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars—and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

The mentality of how we treat one another needs to be examined - especially how we treat our men of color.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

I want to help the middle class.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's the racism, and those are the hard facts of the story.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

White America is in the minority.

After the Age of Pericles, as Athenian confidence dimmed, that famous confidence was all too often replaced by cynicism, modesty by cockiness, sincerity by manipulation, strength by bluster. Though the gods were more and more loudly invoked, the prayers rang hollow, the appeal to conscience turned mute, and any reference to social justice tended to be met with a knowing smirk.