Social justice Quotes

"You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable " "An authentic faith, which is never comfortable or completely personal, always involves a deep desire to change the world." "There are truths we have to grapple with. For instance, women and girls have always been second-class citizens around the world. This isn't something we just started struggling with, it's the reality that we all were born into." "The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, so many children without education, so many poor persons." "Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity." "There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity." "We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance." "The goal of education should be to enable people to become active and engaged citizens, questioning and organizing against injustices." "We cannot be content to sit back and watch as some are subjugated by domination and violence because we are all part of one human family" "We are all and should be treated as equals" "Montage of a Dream Deferred " "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must t" "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society" "There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people" "To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor"