808 Quotes About Social-justice

The aspirations of our founding documents are indeed commendable, but in order to maintain moral authority, our collective memory holds that we have already achieved them. As many a flag-pin wearing politician will tell you, that’s what makes us the greatest nation in the history of the world.

But if we are ever to gain a clearer sense of who we’ve been, and thus who we are as white Americans, we are going to need to revise the story.

Of course it all rests on the unshakable belief that the men and women Forest bought and sold into enslavement were subhuman. But many in America have held and hold such beliefs. We know about Forest, specifically, because he was born poor on the frontier and availed himself of the opportunities to advance in the country and an economy built on the backs of others. You might say he pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but those bootstraps were other human beings.

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

I started off as a scientist, but the needs of the society turned me into a reformer.

No constitution in the world is worth more than human life.

In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using tactics palatable to elites.

Every generation needs a reformer, if you don't have one, be one.