Social justice Quotes · Page 8

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

— William E. Gladstone

When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.

— John Wimber

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

— Aristotle

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

— Dorothy Thompson

Never allow yourself to be seduced by the siren song of social justice.

— Javier Milei

“I never wanted to safe... I wanted to be good.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

— James Gibbons

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is…

— Bernice Sandler

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

— Ann Richards

“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.

— Jehan Sadat

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad.…

— Michael Parenti

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and…

— John Warren Kindt

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best…

— Sojourner Truth

What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was…

— Richard Wright

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…

— Malcolm X

America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by…

— Harold Cruse

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Being a sanctuary city, for the people of organize and run it, is a great source of pride. 'Social justice! Fairness, equality,…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being.…

— Rudolf Rocker

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made…

— Richard Wright

“Henry Ford gave that idea popular currency when he brought out the famous Model T car and announced in 1914 that he…

— Hedrick Smith

“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

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

“Above all, the new Left-- and its overwhelmingly youthful constituency -- rejected the inherited collectivism of its predecessor. To an earlier generation…

— Tony Judt

“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

“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

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

— Natalia Ginzburg

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

— Frantz Fanon

“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.”

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

— John F. Kennedy

“the phantom of social justice tormented him.”

— Victor Hugo

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

— Eric Hoffer

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton