Social Justice Quotes - Page 11

• I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Progressive, Social

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• Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Song, War, Inspiration

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Blessing, Justice, Parent

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• While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Justice, Addiction

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• The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Destiny, Practice

  Address on occasion of opening of State bank of Pakistan, July 1, 1948.

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• [My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.

  Jill Stein

  Mother, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

  Eden Robinson

  Issues, Justice, Social

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.

  Catherine Wilson

  Issues, Justice, Research

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Want, Social

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Justice, Atmosphere

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue.

  David L. Cohen

  Home, Color, Internet Access

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Hate, Justice, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.

  Keith Ellison

  Kings, Fighting, Successful

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Justice, Dignity, Social

  Source: progressive.org

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• The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Justice, People, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

  Nina Turner

  Sleep, Fighting, Justice Equality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

  Jose Marti

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Race, Rights

  "My Race". "Patria" Newspaper, April 16, 1893.

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• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Daughter, Humor

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• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Diversity, Tennis

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• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Sweet, Cake, Justice

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.42, University of Toronto Press

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• We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

  Margaret Mead

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Diversity, Enlightenment

  Rigoberta Menchú, Elisabeth Burgos (1984). “I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala”, p.245, Verso

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• One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

  H. L. Mencken

  White, Justice, Diversity

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.271, Knopf

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