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  • Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.

  • All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.

    John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.217, OUP Oxford
  • It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

    Change   Hope   Courage  
    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.

    Real   War   Impact  
  • It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”
  • The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice.

    Strong   Fighting   Voice  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

    God   Country   War  
    Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)
  • When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

    Law   Effort   Community  
  • Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

    Strong   Believe   Self  
  • Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

    Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

    The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)
  • Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"

    Home   Commitment   Space  
  • Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

    Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.337, New Word City
  • I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.

    Prayer   Believe   Moving  
    Source: www.scottlondon.com
  • We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

    Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

    Government   Roots   Abet  
  • I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.

    Country   Lying   Roots  
  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

  • Few if any political philosophers have had the courage of tackling the Cold War. Even the best of them have kept silent or have stated some bromides glossing over the serious shortcomings of "our" side, such as racism, social injustice, extreme income disparities, the exploitation of the Third World, and environmental degradation.

    War   Racism   Political  
    Source: deutsche-denker.de
  • The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child’s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.

  • I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

    Men   Sorrow   Bitterness  
    Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.5, 谷月社
  • [Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.

  • If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

  • In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest, we go on accumulating personal wealth, ignoring the well being of the others.

    Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.
  • Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist.

    Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
  • The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

    John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape
  • Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

    White   Black   Injustice  
  • A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

    Peace   Mean   Rights  
  • Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

    Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015
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