Social Justice Quotes - Page 2

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Kings, Struggle

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

  Clarence Page

  Diversity, Justice, Privilege

  Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

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  Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Justice, Overcoming

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

  Michael Skolnik

  Fighting, Justice, Leaving

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

  Pope John Paul II

  Justice, Violence, Social

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• Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

  Gloria Steinem

  Justice, People, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

  Tony Honore

  Opportunity, Essence, Justice

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.151, Soft Skull Press

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Creativity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Children, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.83

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• Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

  Pope Francis

  Jobs, Justice, New Job

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• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

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• The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

  Maya Angelou

  Justice, Diversity, Racism

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.57, Bantam

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• Your silence will not protect you.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspiring, Healing, Commitment

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

  Muhammad Ali

  Justice, Diversity, Understanding

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Peace, Patriotic, Ignorance

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

  Corazon Aquino

  Peace, Justice For All, Diversity

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  The Rights of Man pt. 2, ch. 5 (1792)

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

  Chinua Achebe

  Justice, Diversity, Long

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  Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

  Dorothy Day

  Acceptance, Tyrants, Rotten

  "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.

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• We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Race, Class

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• National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

  William E. Gladstone

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.

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