Social Justice Quotes

"Effective action is always unjust" "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world" "You pray for the hungry Then you feed them This is how prayer works" "I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me" "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves" "The educator has the duty of not being neutral" "Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed" "Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "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" "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics" "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." "Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry." "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher" "The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor" "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer" "Democracy in any meaningful sense of the term doesn't mean that citizens have the right to choose between two rich people who represent basically the same interests. " "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization" "Women make up more than half of the world's population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making."