Social Justice Quotes

“Feminism is not about man-hating. It's about equality.”

“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.”

“The true test of a society is how it cares for its most vulnerable members.”

“We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that are poor. We have a lot of people that are hurting. And we're a country that has values that we don't always live up to.”

“Health care is a right, not a privilege.”

“There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice.”

“The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.”

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the poverty of the parent, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”

“I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I just said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.”

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”

“Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men... it means you believe in equality.”

“We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.”

“Why are seals, bears, reindeer, fish, wild game in the national parks, buffalo, and migratory birds all found suitable for federal protection, but not children?”

“The greatness of any society is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members.”

“I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either.”

“We have created a world where a few people live in luxury and the majority live in misery.”

“The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”

“Health care is not a privilege, it is a right.”

“Racism is not a joke. It is not 'banter'. It is a poison that has no place in our society.”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”