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Social Justice Quotes

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
- Jesse Jackson

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
- Jesse Jackson

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
- Bill Ayers

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

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.
- Glenn Beck

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice..., the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
- Franklin D Roosevelt

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
- Benazir Bhutto

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
- Julian Bond

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
- Julian Bond

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
- Norman Borlaug

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
- Norman Borlaug

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
- Barbara Boxer

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
- Guy Burgess

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I gang my own gait 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 an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitudea feeling which increases with the years.
- Albert Einstein

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
- Albert Einstein

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
- Fidel Castro

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
- Marian Wright Edelman

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
- Nick Clegg

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
- Paul Farmer

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
- Bill Frist

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
- Peter Hain

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
- Arthur Henderson

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.
- Bell Hooks

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
- Bell Hooks

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- Bell Hooks

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.
- Claudio Hummes

For heaven's sake, Darling, keep your crusading instinct [for social justice] under control...It's uncomfortable to live with especially for those of us who haven't got one.
- P D James

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
- Helen Keller

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
- John Maynard Keynes

They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.
- Anne Lamott

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
- Jack Layton

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
- William P Leahy

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
- Dee Dee Myers

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
- Dee Dee Myers

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
- Pope John Paul Ii

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.
- Lewis Thompson Preston

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.
- Godfrey Reggio

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
- Benno C Schmidt Jr

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
- Jonathan Shapiro

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
- Martin Sheen

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
- Dar Williams

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