“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
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.”
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”
Jon Stewart
1 quote“Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.”
Victor Hugo
1 quote“They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need...”
Billy Graham
1 quote“We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.”
Malcolm X
1 quote“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
Warren Buffett
1 quote“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per c...”
Darwin
1 quote“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”