Social Justice Quotes - Page 10

• The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Real, Struggle, Justice

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

  Richard Wright

  Thinking, Land, Cities

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• What could I dream of that had the barest possibility of coming true? I could think of nothing. And, slowly, it was upon exactly that nothingness that my mind began to dwell, that constant sense of wanting without having, of being hated without reason.

  Richard Wright

  Dream, Thinking, Justice

  Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

  Dorothy Thompson

  War, Justice, Diversity

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• When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Justice, Safety

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• I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Thinking, Compassion

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• Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Justice, Social

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.399, Basic Books

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• The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Light, Justice

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

  Francis George

  Love Is, Justice, Way

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

  Michael Strong

  Business, Passion, Creating

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• The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

  I. F. Stone

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

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• While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need gospel proclamation, for as much as people may see our good deeds, they cannot hear the good news unless we tell them. Social justice, though valuable as an expression of Christian love, should, especially as a churchwide endeavor, serve the goal of gospel proclamation.

  Darrin Patrick

  Christian, Heart, Expression

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• Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

  John Hope Bryant

  Country, Kings, Law

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

  Thomas Sowell

  Commitment, Talking, Knowing

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• America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Nike, America, Justice

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• I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.

  Christy Turlington

  Justice, Effort, Passionate

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• A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Struggle, Justice, Locks

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• The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and social justice and environmental sanity is not an easy one. The struggle to try and create a more peaceful world will be extremely difficult. But this I know: despair is not an option if we care about our kids and grandchildren. Giving up is not an option if we want to prevent irreparable harm to our planet.

  Bernie Sanders

  Giving Up, Struggle, Kids

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from May 14, 2015

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• The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Social justice is collectivism. Social justice is the rights of a group. It denies individual responsibility. It's a negation of individual responsibility, so social justice is totally contrary to the Word of God.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Rights, Justice

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Ideas, Justice

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

  Gloria Steinem

  Writing, Justice, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

  Lena Dunham

  Children, Hero, Independent

  "Lena Dunham Opens Up About Her New Book, Not That Kind of Girl, and What She's Learned From Her Sister". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2014.

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