Social Justice Quotes

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened" "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor" "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time" "I believe that a child going without an education is a crime." "If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short." "There is no vaccine for racism." "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained." "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant." "No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them." "Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere." "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." "If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you." "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights That is the way of a whole human being" "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" "I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century" "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."