Social-justice Quotes

On the appointed day -- I think it was the next day, but no matter -- Traddles and I repaired to the...

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every...

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowe...

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms o...

From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of ou...

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state...

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is...

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for ...

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most ...

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed ...

But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ...

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard w...

Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. ...

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be see...

First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar l...

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are stan...

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the o...

I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that sa...

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve th...

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom o...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words an...

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. ...

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive...

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Because the drug war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, when drug offen...

We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you ...

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, y...

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters...

For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

As religious leaders, we are called to be true "people of dialogue," to cooperate in building peace ...

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that ...

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different...

It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and ...

We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, mi...

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, ...

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as ci...

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...

You will never find peace with these fascistsYou'll never find friends such as weSo remember that va...

Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each ...

However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always. Our children can...

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to es...

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that ...

...it is the most militant, most radical intervention anyone can make to not only speak of love, but...