“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.”
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...”
Napoleon
2 quotes“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
Toni Morrison
2 quotes“All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allow”
Martin Luther King
1 quote“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is app...”
Wendell Berry
1 quote“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
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.”
Michelle Obama
1 quote“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.”
William S. Burroughs
1 quote“There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?”
Desmond Tutu
1 quote“If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Muhammad Ali
1 quote“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
Adrienne Rich
1 quote“Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race...”
Hillary Clinton
1 quote“Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.”