Social Injustice Quotes - Page 2

• It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Struggle, Rights

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• All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.

  John Stuart Mill

  Community, Brilliant, Injustice

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.217, OUP Oxford

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• No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Matter, Injustice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.85, A&C Black

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• Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Causes, Determined, Injustice

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

  Tommy Makem

  Strong, Fighting, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child’s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.

  Michelle Rhee

  Country, Children, Educational

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• At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

  Richard Rorty

  Fighting, Justice, Being Human

  Richard Rorty (1999). “Philosophy and Social Hope”, ePenguin

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• The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

  James Cook

  Government, Addresses, Injustice

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• Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.

  Marc Morial

  Responsibility, Impact, Suffering

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• It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Class, Would Be

  Paulo Freire (1985). “The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation”, South Hadley, Mass. : Bergin & Garvey

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• I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Sorrow, Bitterness

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社

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• 'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, War, Race

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• Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

  David Platt

  People, Injustice, Christ

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015

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• I look for stories that tell transformative, emotional journeys, have big emotional worlds, feel very relevant and true to the times we're living in - even though they might be of a different time - have a sense of real intimacy with larger forces at work, where there's some kind of social injustice and inequity happening that needs to be conquered or addressed. I find historically that's the formula for a lot of successful operas.

  Jake Heggie

  Real, Successful, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Prayer, Believe, Moving

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.

  Mario Bunge

  War, Racism, Political

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Men, Evil, Giving

  "Gorbachevism". Book by Gorbachevism, 5th article, 1988.

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• I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

  Marguerite Duras

  Views, Injustice, Social

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.1, Grove Press

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• 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.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, War, Mean

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Optimistic, Simple, Republic

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Home, Commitment, Space

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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