Social Justice Movements Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

Gena Showalter

#3. 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.

#4. It's our task to immerse ourselves ... while keeping eyes and hearts open ...

Donna Tartt

#5. Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#6. Campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.

Gloria Steinem

#7. I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage.

Ryan Lilly

#8. I am a product of the draft.

James Inhofe

#9. Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

Paul Tillich

#10. So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

Meg Wolitzer

#12. She would have been a better fuck in Greece, maybe. America was a shitty place to fuck.

Charles Bukowski

#13. change your brain,change your life

Ilchi Lee

#14. In the face of a true friend a man sees, as it were, a second self. - CICERO, De Amicitia I

Anne Fortier

#15. Indeed, all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized a love ethic.

Bell Hooks

#16. According to Daddy, that was a time of general lunacy in Neely, but then Daddy has always said there's nothing like a good snowfall to bring out the feeble-mindedness in people.

T. R. Pearson

#17. Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they're not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.

Howard Zinn

#18. Heresy kicks ass.

P.S. Baber

#19. A review in the Journal of the American Medical Association of thirty-six studies that looked at the physical growth, cognition, language and motor skills, behavior, attention, affect, and neurophysiology found no connection between prenatal exposure to cocaine and a decrease in functioning.

Cris Beam

#20. Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

#21. The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

I. F. Stone

#22. I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.

Ed Sheeran

#23. My name's been on this check for a week now.

Larry Bird