Social Justice Quotes

"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." "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all" "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." "Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will" "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong." "A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence." "Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can s" "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." "For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others" "They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "You know it's funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw." "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against" "The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity." "Every person living in a country should have the same freedom." "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"