808 Quotes About Social-justice

The stigma and lifelong negative bias that results from even a fleeting encounter with the criminal justice system is absolutely life changing.

(his) actions also underscore the limits of symbolic gestures toward social justice that we also often see in the world of philanthropy. We often pay homage to what needs to change and attempt half measures, but we rarely challenge our own complicity in the structural inequities.

The truth is that our individual efforts are important but insufficient. Our collective action -- the leaders we elect, the institutions administered in the name of the People, the other stanchions at the table --- offers an opportunity for bigger, longer-lasting action.

Throw the bums out" and "Drain the swamp" are popular political slogans. But it's not enough to move people around in a bureaucracy if you don't change the underlying values and let those values reshape tactics and procedures.

Our country has a long history, and for much of it the intentional policy of the United States was to create hierarchies of people based on their class, race, and gender.

We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

My books are not books but letters to every thinking and feeling human across time, the purpose of which is to galvanize the human in you to action.