Social justice Quotes

"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination" "Activism is my rent for living on the planet." "But race is the child of racism, not the father" "When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interest which is thereby designated." "I have always been driven by the idea of equality for everyone." "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich—that is the democracy of capitalist society" "There is a big difference between charity and change" "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'" "Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone" "If you can only be tall because somebody's on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious problem" "Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling." "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" "We ask only for justice and equal rights—the right to vote the right to labor the right to serve as jurors and then the judgment of our peers"