Quotes About Social justice

Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

Twenty years later, twenty years after I joined the women's movement, we're still talking about the same issues. We're still talking about reproductive rights for women, and we're still talking about getting equal pay for women. And that's just frustrating.

I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Clearly the students had been learning about racism—far away, and in another country

Social justice activists in the South, for example, who are struggling to force their neighbors to face the ways their racist history informs the racist present, are above all aware of how hard it all is. The acknowledgments are too defensive, the racism too tenacious, the impulse to insist on one's own victimization too

What we need is for good people to stand up against bad people—simple really. But in this society, they never put the burden on men to be the good people in this scenario.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

I'm very mindful of trying to do something good in the world. When I see injustice in the world, it's very hard for me.

My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it.

Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.