Quotes about Social justice

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

The Negro's great stumbling block is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice,… who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

Liberation theology often ends up as little more than theological frosting on a Marxist cake.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.