808 Quotes About Social-justice

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

Every Naskarean ought to be the 911 to society.

Trash your meditation, trash your rituals, trash your argumentation, and give yourself to the making of a civilized world - the mission for which I burnt myself to ashes.

Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

Foucault adopted the position that there are no fundamental principles by which to discover truth and that all knowledge is "local" to the knower - ideas which form the basis of the postmodern knowledge principle. Foucault didn't deny that a reality exists, but he doubted the ability of humans to transcend our cultural biases enough to get at it.

The Postmodern Political Principle: A belief that society is formed of systems of power and hierarchies, which decide what can be known and how

Because of their focus on power dynamics, these thinkers argued that the powerful have, both intentionally and inadvertently, organized society to benefit them and perpetuate their power. They have done so by legitimating certain ways of talking about things as true, which then spread throughout society, creating societal rules that are viewed as common sense and perpetuated on all levels.