“Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.”
Others on Social Justice
Tocqueville
3 quotes“The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manner...”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow”
Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Ambrose Bierce
1 quote“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of r...”
Imran Khan
1 quote“When you remove the concept of reward and punishment on merit, the result is the utter destruction of social fabric.”
Terry Pratchett
1 quote“TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.”
Audre Lorde
1 quote“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
John le Carré
1 quote“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.”
Thomas Mann
1 quote“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”
Spinoza
1 quote“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society a...”
Pope John Paul II
1 quote“Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.”
Bertolt Brecht
1 quote“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes”