808 Quotes About Social-justice

The free market is not necessarily free. Whether people are free depends not just on whether they own themselves, but whether others have power over them in practice.

I don't have a problem w/ people not knowing about oppression & social issues. I DO have a problem w/ people standing their ground in ignorance. Viciously, even violently, protecting that ignorance from the light of truth. I do have a problem with that.

At a time when politics and power decide who is important enough to be fed, to be safe, to be free, those of us who have a voice in this world must speak boldly, loudly, insistently for those who cannot speak for themselves.

If we don't stand up for others when they're persecuted, we lose the right to complain when it's done to us.

Did you know that using social media can actually help you to increase your level of thinking?

The scales of justice are tilted by moneyIt's rather ironic but far from funnyThe powerful get cuff links, not handcuffsWhile prison bars make others' hands rough.

It is the people who are displeased with injustice that can be a channel for social justice.

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

For many of us, justice is something that is static, idealistic, and codified. In contrast, mishpat is dynamic, realistic, and creative.