Quotes About Social justice

Now why should there be a special word for a man with dark skin? There was no special word for a man with blue eyes, or large ears, or curly hair.

When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

Hijo mío, la Santa Madre Iglesia está a la derecha, pero Jesucristo siempre estuvo a la izquierda

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage.

Enough of euphemisms. Enough of partial solutions. Profound changes are needed in society and it's us, women, who can impose them. Remember that no one gives us anything. We have to seize what we want. We need to create global awareness and get organized. Now, more than ever before, this is possible because we have information, communication, and the ability to mobilize.

Today the nanas have become so emancipated that the lords of their domains prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Peru, whom they can mistreat as badly as they used to their Chilean servant girls.

In 1920 a political leader was elected who for the first time preached social justice: Arturo Alessandri Palma, nicknamed The Lion. He came from a middle-class family of second-generation Italian immigrants.

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The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija -explicaba Blanca-. Pero no ayuda a los pobres, No necesitan caridad, sino justicia

Por desgracia el garrote es lo único que funciona en estos países. No estamos en Europa. Aquí lo que se necesita es un gobierno fuerte, un patrón fuerte. Sería muy lindo que fuéramos todos iguales, pero no lo somos.

The idea that everyone was equal was fine as a theoretical slogan, he said, but in practice it was an aberration. We are not equal in the eyes of

Padre Hurtado. Sostenía este hombre de claro corazón que la crisis moral se produce cuando los mismos católicos que viven en la opulencia van a misa mientras niegan a sus trabajadores un salario digno. Estas palabras debieran grabarse en los billetes de mil pesos, para no olvidarlas nunca.

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

Your zip code or your income level should not dictate your access to healthy drinking water.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways; but even if it won't do those things, it remains the least constrained society on earth.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.