Social Justice Quotes - Page 8

• Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Justice, Politician, Smart Women

  "Ontario Liberal leadership candidate Kathleen Wynne: 'I want to be the social justice premier'". www.thestar.com. January 15, 2013.

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• To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.

  Beth Simone Noveck

  Mean, Technology, Government

  "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Men, Justice, Goal

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• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Justice

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• To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Work, Mean

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.

  Sharan Burrow

  Children, People, Justice

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• It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Justice, President, Vices

  "Rachel Dolezal Resigns as Spokane NAACP President" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Legalizing pot would benefit society by first off having laws applicable to all, without those in control breaking the laws and making a mockery of our system. We need social justice. This requires laws equally applied to all. In addition, we could educate and rehabilitate the wrong doers. Not incarnate those misfortunate people for doubtful wrongs.

  Steven Machat

  Law, People, Justice

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings The Fight For Legal Weed To America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. 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. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Justice, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

  Lena Dunham

  Children, Hero, Independent

  "Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her New Book, Not That Kind of Girl, and What She's Learned From Her Sister". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2014.

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• I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Justice, Trying

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• I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Air, People

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• I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Justice, Important

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• What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Justice, Desire

  Source: facpub.stjohns.edu

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• Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

  Jim Wallis

  Justice, Spirituality, Commodity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Thinking, Compassion

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• Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Justice, Challenges, Suffering

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

  Michael Strong

  Business, Passion, Creating

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• Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life.

  Pope Francis

  Keys, Justice, Political

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Justice, Together

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• I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Justice, Great Men

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• What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

  Peter Abrahams

  Hate, Heart, People

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• The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.

  Black Hawk

  Humility, Men, Light

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• The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Real, Justice, Diversity

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