Quotes about Social justice

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

You know, when you've idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn't want us to idolize.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.