“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.” ThinkingShouldBelieveMeanFactsFeelingsYoungPoliticalCoursesSocialGrowsNaturalJusticePartyStruggleMiddleActivitySocial JusticeAgingActivismRadicalWillingnessPolitical PartiesElderlyMiddle AgedSocial Activism Author:Margaret Laurence
“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.” IfsMindCountryUseGovernmentYoungUsedSocialJusticeSawsMediaExampleMovementMinesInternetResearchSocial JusticeSocial MediaIranDiscernmentIranian Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“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.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansReasonLastsYoungSocialJusticeRightsProgressHonestConversationSocial JusticeHuman RightsEightDialogueYoutube Author:Tyler Oakley
“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.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsYearsImportantTodayAmericaYoungFightingSocialJusticeSuccessfulOne ThingKingsMembersSocial JusticeCongressBunchBeing SuccessfulOur SocietyPushingMarchOld ManLutherImpatienceVigorMontgomeryGeorge Wallace Author:Keith Ellison
“In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.” PersonsIdeasWantedYoungOrderSocialJusticePoorFiveTeachingBrotherSocial JusticeVow Author:Godfrey Reggio
“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.” GivingYoungGrowsWealthMoneyGrowingEthicsHumorousSocial JusticeSpreadWorthyGenerosityNovelistsPatriotismEncouragingDissentPlaywrightFunny MoneyManure Author:Thornton Wilder
“Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.” IfsChildrenStoriesEyeYoungCultureJusticeHonestDiversitySocial JusticeExcitedBoringWideAwakeNaiveWide Awake Author:Chinua Achebe
“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.” PeopleKnowsLooksChildrenStillsI CanDreamEyeAgeBeautifulYoungLyingCultureJusticeSawsDiversityDiedSocial JusticeOld AgeHillsBuriedNative AmericanBloodyMudCrookedNative AmericaNative American IndianGreat Native AmericanNative American EarthIndian WisdomBlizzardNative American DreamBeautiful DreamsWounded Knee Author:Black Elk
“I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!” IfsShouldBelieveChildrenPersonsEndsCountryDoneYoungI BelieveJusticePoorMillionsRightsBloodRight NowSocial JusticeSlaveMy ChildrenWickedSubmitUnjustBehalfDespisedForfeitAbolitionistDisregarded Author:John Brown
“Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.” KindYoungJusticeTeacherTeachingDiversitySocial JusticeExpertsPupilsBeginners Book:THE ART OF TEACHING Source: THE ART OF TEACHING
“One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.” PeopleThinkingShouldFirstsYoungJusticeDiversitySocial JusticeThink For Yourself Author:Malcolm X
“The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.” HomeYoungJusticeRightsAchieveRevolutionEqualDiversitySocial JusticeEqual RightsChanting Author:Qiu Jin
“Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.” PeopleThinkingMindYoungJusticeEducationTeachDiversityDeserveSocial JusticeEducationalLiteracyCultivation Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.” PeopleWorldRealYoungSocialGrowsChallengesJusticeCoupleSocial JusticeReal LifeLife ExperienceBest EducationReal Life Experiences Author:Julian Bond
“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.” MenWorldLittlesTwoCountryYoungGirlEvilNationsJusticeEnemySeeingDoorsTelevisionPrideGayGoldThirdsSocial JusticeNotionCastsSillyIgnorantSellingCollectionsEmpiresGrandmotherMedalThird WorldSeducingGay MenGold MedalsCalculatingOthernessThird World CountriesDeviantsDevianceAvon Author:Anna Quindlen
“Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.” PeopleWellsYoungJusticeSuccessfulWorstGreatnessSocial JusticePursuitBeing SuccessfulTelling The TruthCourageousWorst ThingsUnjustStatus QuoPursuit Of Justice Author:Cornel West
“When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young.” PeopleMenChildrenYoungSocialJusticeSimpleAttitudeEconomicMen And WomenLogicSocial JusticeInstrumentsProfoundInequalityIdolsEconomic SystemsOlder People Author:Pope Francis
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryTodayYoungSocialJusticeEconomyEconomicDifficultySocial JusticeProfitVariousDuesSelfishInequalityConceptionUnemployedParametersEconomic Justice Author:Pope Francis