Social Justice Quotes - Page 15

• I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

  Shirin Neshat

  Artist, Justice, Important

  "The exotic and the everyday" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2002.

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• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Justice, Important

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.

  Pope Francis

  Country, Selfish, Thinking

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• Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Justice, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

  Jessica Valenti

  Believe, Position Of Power, Racism

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• Accomplishments have no color.

  Leontyne Price

  Motivational, Color, Accomplishment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.

  Leontyne Price

  Color, Hair, Justice

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• True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Heart, School, Responsibility

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• We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Justice, Diversity, People

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• As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

  Jeannette Rankin

  War, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

  Helen Reddy

  Social Taboos, Justice, Diversity

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• If I have to, I can do anything.

  Helen Reddy

  Justice, Diversity, Ifs

  "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)

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• Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Justice, Diversity

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• Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

  Adrienne Rich

  Past, Thinking, Justice

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.4, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  Beah Richards

  Education, Race, Class

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• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

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• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Lying, Father

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• In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

  Mary Robinson

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

  Anita Roddick

  Real, Moving, Home

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• Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Father, Justice, Diversity

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

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• Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Fall, Race, Justice

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• Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Democracy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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