Quotes about Social justice

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The word of God is upon me, [and] it's like fire shut up in my bones. And I just have to tell it." What King had to tell was the truth about war, racism, and poverty. "It may hurt me," he said. "But when I took up the cross I recognized its meaning... It is not something that you wear. The cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on."

The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.

The dagger-men were both revolutionaries and bandits, killing the rich and robbing the poor.

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

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

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

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