Quotes about Social justice

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

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.

I have often wondered why people never want to put a stone monument of the Eight Beatitudes on a courthouse lawn. Then I realize that the Eight Beatitudes of Jesus would probably not be very good for any war, any macho worldview, the wealthy, or our consumer economy.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.