808 Quotes About Social-justice

The church wanted us to give out food to malnourished children, but they didn't want us to question why they were malnourished to begin with.

They [the church] wanted us to give food out to malnourished mothers and children, but they didn't want us to question why we were malnourished to begin with. They wanted us to grow vegetables on the tiny plots around our houses, but they didn't want us to question why we didn't have enough land to feed ourselves. [p. 16]

Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.

Present injustices exist not so much because simple individuals are acting in bad faith or lacking in charity, but because huge, impersonal systems (that seem beyond the control of the individuals acting within them) disprivilege some even as they unduly privilege others.

Give a man a teacher and he'll learn many a thing.Teach a man to learn and he'll learn from everything.

So while my refusal to keep laughing or making you comfortable may seem like a real fucking downer, the truth is that this is what optimism looks like. Naming what is happening to us, telling the truth about it--as ugly and uncomfortable as it can be--means that we want to change. That we know it is not inevitable.

It is your privilege that shapes what you get to worry about and it is a lack of privilege that shapes what she must worry about.

For a better world, we need education. nevertheless, more than education, we need people with common sense.

A commitment to expanding democracy is at the core of all good socialist thinking. Democracy is the principle that people ought to have a say over decisions that affect them, and that they should be in control of their own lives rather than being subjected to the wishes of powerful economic and political elites.