Social Justice Quotes - Page 5

• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Mean

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

  Francis Bacon

  Teaching, Voice, Justice

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• We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

  Will Durant

  Justice, Teach

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• The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

  Albert Einstein

  Class, Justice, Diversity

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.228, Princeton University Press

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• But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Freedom, Men, Essence

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• You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Positive, Death

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Honesty, Hate, Integrity

  Television broadcast, December 31, 1955.

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• An intellectual hatred is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hatred, Intellectual, Worst

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 57 (1919)

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• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

  Plautus

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

  "Trinummus" by Plautus, Act II, sc. 4, line 37,

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• He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

  Laozi

  Powerful, Justice, Diversity

  Laozi, Henri Borel, Kang-hu Kiang (1939). “Laotzu's Tao and wu-wei: A new translation by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. Interpretive essays by Henri Borel. Outline of Taoist philosophy and religion by Dr. Kiang Kang-hu”

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• What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

  Jules Michelet

  Justice, Diversity, Firsts

  Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.183, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley

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• Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Relationship, Religious, Freedom

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• What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Justice

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• It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

  Charles Ferguson

  Fashion, Justice, Diversity

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• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Xenophobia, Justice, Diversity

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• If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

  James A. Baldwin

  Giving, Justice, Diversity

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind". www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

  Aristotle

  Educational, Teaching, Justice

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• When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments of a social and economic system, which is characterized, better yet dominated, by profound inequalities. So we discard whatever is not useful to this logic; it is this attitude that discards children and older people, and is now affecting the young.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Children, Simple

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• Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Honesty, Native American

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• To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Christian, Lying, Believe

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• For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Simple, Israel

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.4240, e-artnow

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• ... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Art, Strong, Rights

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• The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Justice, Revolution, Dignity

  Interview with Joseph Mayton, progressive.org. December 12, 2011.

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• The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Diversity, Historical, Slavery

  "History of Woman Suffrage". Part 1,

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