Social justice Quotes

"The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption" "Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression, or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities." "All oppression creates a state of war" "The function of freedom is to free someone else" "Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair." "Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it" "Compassion is no substitute for justice" "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will" "I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town" "I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed—geared toward improving our entire society" "Effective action is always unjust" "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world" "You pray for the hungry Then you feed them This is how prayer works" "I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me" "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"