Quotes about Social justice

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible

Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

There are a lot of people doing social justice things, which is great. But we can't just say, 'Here's some food. Here's some stuff.' We have to be able to give the gospel, share the hope and have a real heart for that.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

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

When talking about human rights, in truth we're referring to men's rights. If a man is beaten and deprived of his freedom, it's called torture. When a woman endures the same, it's called domestic violence and is still considered a private matter in most of the world.

The man of good heart maintained that a moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics (religious people) who faithfully go to mass (church) deny their workers a dignified wage. These words should be engraved on the thousand-peso note, so we never forget them.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.