Top 100 Quotes About Social Justice
#1. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
Howard Zinn
#2. 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.
George Papandreou
#3. Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.
Carl Jung
#4. All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas Sowell
#5. The Pike is the meanest and most vicious of fresh-water fishes. This is caused by heredity and environment, or unfortunate social conditions in the water.
Will Cuppy
#7. His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.
Kofi Annan
#8. The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.
John Rawls
#9. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
Peter Hain
#10. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199
Shamus Rahman Khan
#11. 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
#12. The "social justice" movement is not at all about social justice, but about relentlessly bullying anyone who does not subscribe to their Stalinist ideology.
Joshua Goldberg
#13. Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
Thomas Sowell
#14. I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
Alice Walker
#15. The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco- populism . Ecopopulism ... To change our laws and culture , the green movement justice , political solutions and social change.
Van Jones
#16. You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online. You can't just trust someone that you meet online. People aren't always who they say they are.
Victoria Justice
#17. 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
#18. The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.
Tyler Oakley
#19. You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write.
Verge Le Noir
#20. I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.
Assata Shakur
#21. The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
Garet Garrett
#22. Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
Matthew Fox
#23. Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't matter to those who are subjected to those societies how someone has articulated their misery.
Jake Danishevsky
#24. Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
A. Philip Randolph
#25. Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that's when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!
Cameron Semmens
#26. I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.
Max Lucado
#27. For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
N.K. Jemisin
#28. My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.
Geraldine Brooks
#29. The moment when I am no longer more than a writer, I will cease to write.
Albert Camus
#30. Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice. And
Desmond Tutu
#31. Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.
Sathya Sai Baba
#32. A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God
that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which
it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?
Oscar A. Romero
#33. I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.
G.N. Chevalier
#34. The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
#35. I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
Van Jones
#36. This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system.
Michelle Alexander
#37. If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.
Chris Hani
#38. One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
William P. Leahy
#39. Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
Pope John Paul II
#40. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
Gloria Steinem
#41. I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.
Joyce Banda
#42. The left-right political dichotomy serves liberalism by not challenging it. Democracy sustains the status quo by offering the illusion of choice with no choice. Genuine opposition can only emerge if there is an alternative story with which to counter the current mythos.
John Dunn
#43. Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
Jack Layton
#44. The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.
Simon S. Tam
#45. We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#46. Still, there is space for this secular movement that has become frustrated with the liberal experience. In my opinion, there is a need for an effort that helps he establishment of social justice while taking into consideration all the qualifications and reservations against the welfare state.
Samir Kassir
#47. A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
H.G.Wells
#48. I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Jesse Jackson
#49. The Civil War won formal rights for Negroes, but failed to win social justice and factual democracy. The actual result has been segregation, and fear and ignorance for both whites and blacks.
Paul Goodman
#50. To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck
#51. If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#53. What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#54. It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#55. Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
Frances Beinecke
#56. Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.
Mark Tooley
#57. And I want to thank Bernie Sanders. Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. You've put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong.
Hillary Clinton
#58. Justice is a social construct. It's well known that the physical universe isn't fair. Nevertheless, it's difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.
Susan Cartwright
#59. The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#60. 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
#61. I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
Bell Hooks
#62. We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
Marcus Garvey
#63. This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#64. This is only the beginning. Many die, many kill their bodies and souls, but they cannot kill the justice of God, even they cannot kill the eternal spirit. From their very degradation that spirit will rise up to demand of the world compassion and justice
Radclyffe Hall
#65. What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#66. Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
Honore De Balzac
#67. An Islamic ideology capable of giving Muslims freedom, social justice and of interacting with other religions, cultures and ideologies
Hassan Hanafi
#68. Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.
Ronald Rolheiser
#69. Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.
Johann Lamont
#70. Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are
a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
Ha-Joon Chang
#71. The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#72. Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#73. I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Friedrich Hayek
#74. To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
Beth Simone Noveck
#75. Feminism remains a crucial element of any program for social justice today, which is why patriarchal forces attempt to eliminate or marginalize feminist ideas.
Robert Jensen
#76. We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.
Rivera Sun
#77. Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
Kim Dae-jung
#78. In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
James A. Baldwin
#79. The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
Jane Addams
#80. Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?
Thomas Sowell
#81. We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.
Herbert Hoover
#82. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.
David Jaber
#83. Difference between author & reader are only defined by their Intent.
Prem
#84. My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
#85. We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.
Harold Bloom
#86. 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
#87. For 2015, the Equality Index found that blacks had on average only 56 percent of the economic well-being and 61 percent of social justice benefits that whites enjoy.
Robert P. Jones
#88. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
Will Durant
#89. Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
#90. the phantom of social justice tormented him.
Victor Hugo
#91. Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#92. Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.
Monica O Montgomery
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#96. Social justice is for everyone, including people with disabilities.
Marlee Matlin
#97. Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
Bobby Seale
#98. My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
Marianne Williamson
#99. Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.
Tyler Oakley
#100. [I]n America,
wrongs can be righted,
warriors can wear skirts and blouses,
and the bravest hearts
may beat in girls
only five feet tall.
Michelle Markel
