Quotes about Social justice

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning... It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."

The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.

The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Without justice, there can be no peace.