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“I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their social justice movement in their country. And a good Iranian friend of mine showed me how also in Iran, till the government shut it down, much was communicated via social media. So I'm not against. I use the internet regularly to do research. It's great but you have to use your discernment, especially if researching content.”

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Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom

“Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.”

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Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.”

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Author:Christy Turlington

“In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.”

“Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.”

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Author:Tyler Oakley

“The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.”

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Author:Tyler Oakley

“Christianity and Islam are concerned with the idea of justice, which can turn into political justice, social justice, economical justice, and so on. Buddhism is not so concerned with the idea of rights. There is more talk of responsibility than of demanding rights.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“I just try to, in my own way, contribute to making a better Hollywood, to move Hollywood to be a leader in social justice, as it always has been, and not to have any holes in their own backyard while they continue to push for equality and all the things that they always stand up for.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.”

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Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.”

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Author:Neal Brennan

“My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.”

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Author:Clayton Cramer

“The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.”

“Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“Social justice is group psychology, it's group rights, it's collectivisim, and it's a negation of individual responsibility, which is what the Bible teaches. Individual responsibility. And of course, social justice leads very quickly to socialism, and ultimately to communism.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

“Children need models rather than critics.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

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

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Author:Michael Skolnik

“I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.”

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Author:Van Jones

“Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.”

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Author:Jimmy Cliff

“I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”

Source: DAYBREAK

“The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.”

“[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.”

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Author:Eden Robinson

“About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.”

“I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.”

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Author:Van Jones

“I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.”

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Author:Bill McKibben

“We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.”

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Book:Hurry up, America, & spit

Source: Hurry up, America, & spit

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

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Book:The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue.”

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Author:David L. Cohen

“I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.”

“Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.”

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Author:Milo Yiannopoulos

“One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.”

“No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.”

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Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“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.”

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.”

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Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.”

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Author:Nina Turner

“What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.”

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Author:Art Spiegelman

“Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.”

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Author:Karin Slaughter

“I mostly want to highlight things that feel like an injustice, and that's not really political. No one is going to - or should - say that bigotry toward Muslims is partisan. It's a matter of being just or not being just. So that's why I started calling myself a social justice comedian.”

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Author:Negin Farsad

“The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.”

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Author:Negin Farsad

“Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social institutions - characterized by political exclusion, exploitation, and unequal access to resources - have systematically made others lose out. But here's the thing. Maybe it's time to get uncomfortable and upset. Maybe those feelings can be acted upon.”

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Author:Emily Raboteau

“We are conditioned to be consumers since birth. I still think it's kind of incumbent on us as consumers to know the difference between something that's truly progressive and something that's just trying to get us to buy a product. Capitalism, ultimately, it's not about equality, it's not about social justice.”

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Author:Andi Zeisler

“Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor's sense for what's a great story, but he's also incredibly passionate about social justice. I think Shaun King called him the most woke editor in American, if that's a compliment.”

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Author:Lydia Polgreen

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