Social Justice Quotes
957 Social Justice quotes by 537 unique authors
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to…
— Michelle Bachelet
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
— Lord Acton
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
— Joan Baez
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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
— Pearl Bailey
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
— Jane Addams
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
— Jane Addams
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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
— Glenn Beck
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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…
— Glenn Beck
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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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
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
— Norman Borlaug
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