Best Social Justice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 22

“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'.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25 of Matthew's Gospel: I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was in prison, I was sick, I was naked and you helped me, clothed me, visited me, took care of me. Whenever we do this to one of our brothers, we do this to Jesus. Caring for our neighbor; for those who are poor, who suffer in body and in soul, for those who are in need. This is the touchstone.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”

“If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.”

Ifs Humans Justice Ability Responsibility Study Rights Diversity Gains Increase Social Justice Independence Spheres Incline

Author:Kang Youwei

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

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Author:Martin Sheen

“As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.”

“I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.”

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Author:Stephane Dion

“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

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

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Book:Power Evangelism

Source: Power Evangelism

“It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal.”

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Author:John Goodlad

“The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.”

Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

“Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice.”

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Author:Jehan Sadat

“Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“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.”

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.”

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Author:Philip Wollen

“The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.”

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Author:Jim Wallis

“We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.”

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Author:Claudio Hummes

“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.”

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Book:Pornography: men possessing women

Source: Pornography: men possessing women

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

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Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

Source: The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair

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

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

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Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.”

“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”

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Book:Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

Source: Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

“I don’t mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn’t a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.”

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Author:Tayari Jones

“Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!”

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Book:The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

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

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Author:Chris Hani

“I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.”

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Author:Shirin Neshat

“Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

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Book:Going to the Territory

Source: Going to the Territory

“The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.”

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Author:Guy Burgess

“We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.”

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Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determinat ion, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism/ extreme nationalism culture.”

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