Quotes about Social justice

The great irony, rarely recognized, is that abortion in America was initially conceived and advocated for the purpose of reducing the black population. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and one of the champions of the abortion rights movement, was an unapologetic eugenicist and a racist, and wanted minorities and the poor to have abortions.

The effect? A remarkably disproportionate number of black babies are aborted. The abortion rate per 1000 women for whites is 18, for blacks 54, and for others 38.46

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

I would not kill even a Bishop. I would not kill a proprietor of any kind. I would make them work each day as we have worked in the fields and as we work in the mountains with the timber, all of the rest of their lives. So they would see what man is born to. That they should sleep where we sleep. That they should eat as we eat. But above all that they should work. Thus they would learn.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Not to share one's goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.