Economic Injustice Quotes

• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Causes, Charity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.

  Pamela Yates

  Believe, Rights, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be contained or restrained by racial and economic injustices, metal bars or the burden of hate and revenge.

  Muhammad Ali

  Revenge, Hate, Heart

  "Nelson Mandela's death sparks global response". www.cnn.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, Two, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services. These demonstrations have and currently are being met with state-sanctioned violence and an almost pathological refusal to hear their demands.

  Henry Giroux

  Cutting, Issues, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

  Indira Gandhi

  Struggle, Evil, Colonialism

  Source: sangam.org

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• We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

  Freeman Dyson

  Children, Trying, Today

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction...it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

  Elissa Schappell

  Kings, Book, Writing

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• For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Ghetto, People

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• Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Prejudice, Ignored

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.16, Beacon Press

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• It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

  Bill Pascrell

  Jobs, Suffering, Lines

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• I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

  Sylvia Porter

  Injustice, Economic, Fury

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