Top 1200 Social Justice Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

We all need to work together, because there are no jobs on a dead planet; there is no equity without rights to decent work and social protection, no social justice without a shift in governance and ambition, and, ultimately, no peace for the peoples of the world without the guarantees of sustainability.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.

Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.

Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice.

I come before you to call for unity from all Argentina, to build a new social contract of brotherhood and solidarity. I come before you calling for all to put Argentina on its feet, to put the country on a path toward development and social justice.

...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

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

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

I'm just about social justice. Amen to women like me!

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.

Social justice and economics are both issues to me.

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

We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

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

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

The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

I'm not a social justice warrior - that was never my goal, to be a political figurehead.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

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

The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

Being a sanctuary city, for the people of organize and run it, is a great source of pride. 'Social justice! Fairness, equality, diversity!" All the things that make liberals great people and make you a schlub. The more pressures and demands on their social services, the better people they are.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

I grew up in a country where the environment was very social justice-oriented.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

If you want to destroy the planet, you can kiss social justice goodbye. The earth comes first.

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws.

Deep in my heart, I care about social-justice warriors.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

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

You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

A primary justification for a basic income is social justice.

The country needs fiscal discipline to build a strong economy and for social justice.

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.

If I were to distill my household, it was a passion for social justice and a love for food and laughter.