Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to…

“God intended the entire culture of Israel to learn and teach how to do justice in a way that shaped their hearts as well…

— Jessica Nicholas

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part…

— Paul Robeson

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“What social justice requires, King assumes, cannot be discerned in the abstract from the safe distance of a policy analyst or an academic theorist.…

— Christopher D. Marshall

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

— Frederick Douglass

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…

— Tecumseh

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical…

— Pope Francis

“Injustice is not allowed on my watch.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The ethical and philosophical justifications for basic income – social justice, freedom and economic security – have been well established. They are embedded in…

— Guy Standing

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of…

— Seyla Benhabib

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

— Simone Weil

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

— Robin Morgan