808 Quotes About Social-justice

There's something about a white man who seriously opens up to black people. White people who become family to black people. There's another dimension of militance that emerges from them. They grip their anger with the system in ways black people are not allowed, in efforts to right the wrongs.

Whenever there is injustice, whenever there is oppression, whenever there is suffering, a human will rise to the rescue of righteousness and obliteration of savagery, they may be called Naskar, they may be called Christ, they may be called Buddha or anything else, the name is irrelevant, but the promise is absolute. And to keep that promise is the existential duty of every human being with a wide awake conscience and upright spine.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

I want it said loudly and clearly that we can define racism in many ways, but it is, in my opinion, intellectually disingenuous to define it in a way that trivializes the role that racial hatred plays. Certainly, not all racism is hate-driven, but to ignore the connection between racial hate and racism is to reduce the concept of racism to a useless theoretical abstraction.

Don't let the whingers lead you to believe "they are trying to erase history"What people are doing is simply rejecting the notion that certain historical figures should be commemorated with a statue.I mean you all know who Adolf Hitler is, but have you ever seen a statue of him?

Don't let the whingers lead you to believe people are trying to erase history.What people are doing is simply rejecting the notion that certain historical figures should be commemorated with a statue.I mean you all know who Adolf Hitler is, but have you seen a statue of him?

No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

The cross wasn't just an act of lofty compassion, it is also a deliberate model for social justice.

White privilege is about the word white, not rich. It's having advantage built into your life. It's not saying your life hasn't been hard; it's saying your skin color hasn't contributed to the difficulty in your life.