quotes about Social Justice
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A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
-- Abba EbanSource : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
-- Alice Stone Blackwell -
I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.
-- Alice Walker -
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
-- Amiri BarakaSource : 'Kulchur' Spring 1962 'Tokenism'
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
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Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
-- Aubrey Thomas de Vere -
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
-- Betty Friedan -
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
-- Blaise Pascal -
There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
-- Brad Thor -
Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
-- Clarence PageSource : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial
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How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice?
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We must take the profit out of prejudice.
-- Coleman YoungSource : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.71, The Forlorn Press
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Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.
-- Dick GregorySource : Dick Gregory (1972). “No More Lies: The Myth and the Reality of American History”, HarperCollins Publishers
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When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
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Goods which are not shared are not goods.
-- Fernando de RojasSource : "La Celestina". Play by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
-- Gamal Abdel Nasser -
If I have to, I can do anything.
-- Helen ReddySource : "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)
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We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
-- Herbert SpencerSource : 'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 16
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The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
-- Jacob Bronowski -
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
-- Jean Toomer -
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
-- Jeannette RankinSource : Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.
-- John Wimber -
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What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
-- Jules MicheletSource : Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.183, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson -
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
-- Marian Wright EdelmanSource : "Why do Politicians Feel Free to Hack Away at Special Education?" by Laurie Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2017.
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
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If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
-- Philip Gourevitch -
Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
-- Ralph WileySource : Ralph Wiley (1993). “What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard”, Ballantine Books
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In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.
-- Shirley ChisholmSource : Shirley Chisholm (1970). “Unbought and Unbossed”
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."
-- Sonia JohnsonSource : Sonia Johnson (1987). “Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation”, Crossing Pr
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
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An intellectual hatred is the worst.
-- William Butler Yeats -
National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.
-- William E. GladstoneSource : Speech in Plumstead, London, November 30, 1878.
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Whites have traded their culture for power.
-- Eileen O'BrienSource : Eileen O'Brien (2001). “Whites Confront Racism: Antiracists and Their Paths to Action”, p.117, Rowman & Littlefield
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Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
-- Matthew FoxSource : Matthew Fox (2006). “A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity”, p.50, Simon and Schuster
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