Quotes about Social justice

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

As seminary students Jim and friends examined the Bible to find every reference to the poor — and they found more than two thousand. In fact, they concluded one of every sixteen verses was about the poor. Then a zealous friend decided to cut out every Bible verse about the poor to see what the Bible would look like. As he tells the story, "that old Bible literally was in shreds. It wouldn't hold together. It was a Bible full of holes.

This has to be emphasized, because today too many of us emphasize kingdom but ignore the Holy Spirit and Pentecost and church—as if kingdom meant nothing more than justice and peace and love in the world (or in their country or in their state or in their local village).

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.