Quotes On Social Justice And Equality

#1. I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

Christy Turlington

#2. 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

#3. I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.

Barry Lyga

#4. When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

Douglas Alexander

#6. There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Brad Thor

#7. The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Norman Cousins

#8. Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

Nelson Mandela

#9. If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being.

Sukarno

#10. I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but ... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

Nicola Sturgeon

#11. Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.

Terry Eagleton

#12. At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

Carol Gilligan

#13. If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

Evo Morales

#14. The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Simone Weil

#15. What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.

Ted Nugent

#16. Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.

Syama Prasad Mukherjee

#17. You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#18. 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

#19. Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

Tony Honore

#20. Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality

Paul Isaacs

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Men must know their limitations.

Clint Eastwood

#24. Hold onto me baby. I'm going to take care of you. The raspy need in his voice only made me more desperate.

Abbi Glines

#25. 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

#26. Change threatens, and its possibility creates frightened, angry people. They are found in their purest essence on the extreme right, but in all of us there is some fear of process, of change.

Carl R. Rogers

#27. In every universe, everywhere, people just plain screw up.

Claudia Gray

#28. I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. Equality is humanity.

Rashmit Kalra

#30. The concept of "social justice," which purports to promote equality among the lines of gender and ethnicity, is based on intersectional feminist theory. Per the theory, certain classes of people are naturally oppressors, while others are victims. There's nothing more divisive than that.

Ian Miles Cheong

#31. I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.

Russell Simmons

#32. We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Derrick A. Bell

#33. Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

Laurence Overmire

#34. See, some guys prefer asses
Some prefer tits
And I'm not saying that I don't like those bits
But what's more important
What supersedes
Is a girl a with passion, wit and dreams
So I want a girl who reads.

Mark Grist

#35. The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

Francis Fukuyama

#36. As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

George Takei