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Quotes about Social justice

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
— Desmond Tutu
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
— Glenn Beck
There are a lot of people doing social justice things, which is great. But we can't just say, 'Here's some food. Here's some stuff.' We have to be able to give the gospel, share the hope and have a real heart for that.
— Jeremy Camp
Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.
— Martin Luther King III
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
— George Bernard Shaw
When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.
— Isabel Allende
The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.
— Isabel Allende
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
— Toni Morrison
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.
— Toni Morrison
Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.
— Tony Evans
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt