Social Justice Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Social Justice
Social Justice Quotes & Sayings
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You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps.
— Betty Medsger
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
— N.K. Jemisin
People create social conditions and people can change them.
— Osonye Tess Onwueme
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
— Thomas Sowell
As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
— Jesse Jackson
The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.
— Jim Wallis
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
— Norman Borlaug
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
— Marcus Garvey
Sitting on the sidelines in our interconnected world is not a sufficient response.
— Dillon Burroughs
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
— Arnold Joseph Toynbee
We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.
— Kermit Roosevelt III
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.
— Arthur C. Brooks
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
— William E. Gladstone
The fight for truth ... is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.
— Vandana Shiva
Whites have traded their culture for power.
— Eileen O'Brien
Growing is the result of learning.
— Malcolm X
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
— Bryan Stevenson
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
— Albert Einstein
Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.
— Dilma Rousseff
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
— Arthur Henderson
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
— Vandana Shiva
Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.
— Lewis Thompson Preston
When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
— Jonathan Kozol
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
— Rivera Sun
I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.
— Christy Turlington
Apathy is not compatible with love
— Simon Tam
Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
— Kathleen Wynne
That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
— Bell Hooks
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
The decrease in the number of killings doesn't make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
— Richard Rorty
school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice
— Oakes Jeannie
A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.
— Mary E. Hunt
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
— Angela Davis
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
— William Faulkner
Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.
— Jim Wallis
The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.
— Robert Kuttner
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
— John Maynard Keynes
Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.
— Alan Rosenberg
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
— Jane Addams
Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?
— Simon S. Tam
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris — Martin Luther King Jr.
Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.
— Bell Hooks
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.
— Terry Eagleton
I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ...
— Stephane Dion
Marxian thought, King argued, should challenge Christians to express their own "passion and concern for social justice".
— Troy Jackson
Equality is humanity.
— Rashmit Kalra
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
— Derrick A. Bell
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
— Thomas Sowell
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
— Mary Parker Follett
Goods which are not shared are not goods.
— Fernando De Rojas
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
— Cormac McCarthy
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
— Patrick W. Corrigan
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.
— Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice
— Nelson Mandela
Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
— Ashton Applewhite
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
— Albert Einstein
It is brave to be involved
— Gwendolyn Brooks
It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
— Pearl S. Buck
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
— Jules Michelet
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
— Mary McCarthy
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?
— Rick Perlstein
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
— Nawal El Saadawi
We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.
— Toni Morrison
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
— Matthew Fox
The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.
— Elvia Alvarado
the phantom of social justice tormented him.
— Victor Hugo
Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
— Philip Gourevitch
