It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and "develop their personalities" at the former's expense we speak of oppression; when structures and persons that perpetuate powerlessness are replaced by structures that allow people to stand on their own feet and have their own voice, we speak of liberation.2 Both

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict.

Christians should see Muslims, who give ultimate allegiance to God as the supreme good, as allies in resisting the tendency in contemporary culture to see mere pleasure, rather than justice and love, as the hallmark of the good life.

Christian faith is therefore a "prophetic" faith that seeks to mend the world. An idle or redundant faith—a faith that does not seek to mend the world—is a seriously malfunctioning faith

I believe the church of Jesus Christ should be first in line to champion the empowerment of women and girls throughout the world to become contributing members in their societies.