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“No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life”

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Author:Rigoberta Menchu

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

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Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.”

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Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.”

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Author:John Howard Griffin

“Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to vicious media distortions, or entirely ignored, denied basic civil rights while our demands are ridiculed and derided. But in the midst of all this only one thing has changed for certain. We have changed. We will never go back into the closet.”

“We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.”

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Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'”

“No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice”

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

“[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet, they seem to think that the key to happiness is giving people more stuff - by enlisting the coercive power of government. This perverse way of thinking holds that 'social justice' demands that we take money from those who have earned it and give it to those who have less of it. That's not social justice; that's materialism.”

“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