Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice. — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is… — Bernice Sandler Copy Share Image
“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain… — Deborah Prothrow-Stith Copy Share Image
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me,… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
“In the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Growth is essential and must be sustained. But rapid growth alone cannot address the problems arising out of continuing disparities. Tackling these… — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Physicians, patients, and ethicists must also understand that acknowledging abuse and encouraging African Americans to participate in research are compatible goals. History… — Harriet A. Washington Copy Share Image
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being.… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Just like the myth of the people’s or popular capitalism, which was propagated since the mid1950s in the countries to the west… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford gave that idea popular currency when he brought out the famous Model T car and announced in 1914 that he… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
“Above all, the new Left-- and its overwhelmingly youthful constituency -- rejected the inherited collectivism of its predecessor. To an earlier generation… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“the New Testament does not talk about human beings furthering or spreading or building up or working for God’s reign. Human efforts… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
“Be The Change, Not The Caption (Sonnet) Do good, don't delegate. Go vital, not viral. Dare the deed, not drama. Be the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice. — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
If the civil society is not transparent, honest, and accountable, then you cannot be a champion of social justice. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor. — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
“They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Seek yourself in the joy of neighbors, You shall know the meaning of justice. Seek yourself in smiles of the world, You… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
