Quotes about Social justice

I was suddenly and sharply interrupted by my good old friend Sojourner Truth with a question, Frederick, is God dead? No, I answered, and because God is not dead slavery can only end in blood.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

Handing out free food and clothes was a charitable act. Approaching the powers was a political act.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

As seminary students Jim and friends examined the Bible to find every reference to the poor — and they found more than two thousand. In fact, they concluded one of every sixteen verses was about the poor. Then a zealous friend decided to cut out every Bible verse about the poor to see what the Bible would look like. As he tells the story, "that old Bible literally was in shreds. It wouldn't hold together. It was a Bible full of holes.