Quotes About Social justice

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

The way to make society more equal is by forcing (through skin in the game) the rich to be subjected to the risk of exiting from the 1 percent.

I am now thinking of the next step: to recreate a low-information, more deterministic ancient time, say in the nineteenth century, all the while benefiting from some of the technical gains (such as the Monte Carlo engine), all of the medical breakthroughs, and all the gains of social justice of our age. I would then have the best of everything. This is called evolution.

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true." Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either. It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.

Color shouldn't matter" I was always taught—and always believed. But there's a big difference between "shouldn't" and "doesn't." Privilege is all about not seeing that gap.

But we couldn't holler law because when you didn't have any money the law stopped working.

You can't blame them for being rich," Jimmy said. "No, I blame their fucking parents." "And their grandparents," said Jimmy. "Yes, I'd be happy to take their new cars and their pretty girlfriends and I wouldn't give a fuck about anything like social justice." "Yeah," said Jimmy. "I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Superman, Iron Man, Batman"—Flyaway Hair winces visibly—"you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.

Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

But let the slave who sees another cast into a shallow grave know that he will be buried in the same way when his day comes.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

According to the Equal Justice Initiative, "In a state with a population that is 27% black, nearly half of Alabama's death row is black and 83% of the 757 people executed by Alabama since capital punishment began in the state have been black."53

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

MeToo is a good movement, but women should not misuse it... MeToo should be used correctly.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

Activism is moral authority in redemptive liberalism.

When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.