Quotes about Social justice

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

You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right.

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

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

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strange them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Liberation theology often ends up as little more than theological frosting on a Marxist cake.

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

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

The Negro's great stumbling block is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice,… who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.