Social justice Quotes

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed is to liberate themselves" "The educator has the duty of not being neutral" "Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed" "Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights" "Let us end the suppression of women's rights throughout the world" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe" "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics" "The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty." "Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry." "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher" "The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor" "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer" "Democracy in any meaningful sense of the term doesn't mean that citizens have the right to choose between two rich people who represent basically the same interests. "