808 Quotes About Social-justice

Silence is the language of realization, action is the language of revolution.

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

No matter how far you go in pursuit of peace, without justice, it will always be in vain.

When an entrepreneur becomes a billionaire by sucking all the resources from the world, nobody calls them a thief, yet when a homeless person steals a loaf of bread it is considered a heinous crime against humanity. If this is humanity, then I beg to report, you people are worse than animals.

The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.

If you must measure my wealth, measure it by the minds I lift, not by the money I own.

In order to break free from the chains that bind, one must take whatever action they can to disconnect internally from the larger systems of oppression, of which the family unit is merely a microcosm.

Americans seem predominantly invested in deriving what they ought to think and do from what appears socially normative. For instance, a well trained conscience has little meaning for us today since the conscience is no longer something to be developed and trained but rather the sting is to be silenced and ignored. All behaviors are justified as Self. The freedom to impose the Self on the rest of the world without guilt or explanation.

Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one’s fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.