Top Social Justice Quotes

For me I see the world as one big nation, where everyone in it is a citizen, so it is our responsibility to make it better.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good...

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

We must acknowledge and take responsibility for the conflicts we have helped to create, and act to create real change. That, after all, is the true hallmark of democracy--a commitment to justice, hone...

And when they spy on us let them discover us loving

We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion,...

The gospel Jesus spreads in the book of Luke has as one of its main themes that Jesus brings a social revolution, in which the previous systems and hierarchies of clean and unclean, sinner and saved,...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an...

Banks should actively encourage companies that are doing a good job on environmental and social fronts. Banking for community development is the banking of future.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of so...

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

We are revolutionaries for peace and freedom not violence. And we are going to fight through creativity rather than aggression.

In American popular usage today, 'liberalism' means left-liberalism – not to be confused with 'neoliberalism' ... and is expressly contrasted with 'conservatism'. In this usage a liberal is one who le...

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

As a means of alleviating poverty, Christian charity was worse than useless, as could be seen in the Papal states, which abounded in it. But it was popular not only among the traditionalist rich, who...

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.