808 Quotes About Social-justice

The earth is humanized by heroes - be a hero my friend - always say, I am responsible, I am accountable, I am invincible.

I am injurious to prejudice, bigotry and sectarianism.

To many, what happened to Chin represented a double tragedy: the murder of a young man with a promising future and a criminal justice system that failed to adequately punish the killers... Suddenly, people who had endured a lifetime of degrading treatment were wondering if their capacity to suffer in silence might no longer be a virtue.

It creates within America a virtuous Us and a demonized Them.

Our own history has shown that we are stronger as a mosaic than a melting pot.

The example of Chavez offers a clear warning to all Christians who aspire to a life of social justice and activism:  success in Christian social justice endeavors is not the product of human cleverness or carefully conceived strategies and tactics -- it is first and foremost the fruit of God experienced in the lives of all those who cling to Christ.

I believed violence was stalking me - but in truth I was being stalked inside my own head by racist ideas.

One of racism's harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to survive - and, even worse, the Black screwup who faces the abyss after one error, while the White screwup is handed second chances and empathy.

[...] we must learn to live and to embrace the destruction and rearticulation of the human in the name of a more capacious and, finally, less violent world, not knowing in advance what precise our form our humanness can and does take. It means we must be open to its permutations, in the name of nonviolence. [...] The necessity of keeping our notion of the human open to a future articulation is essential to the project of international human rights discourse and its politics.