Social Justice Quotations

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice?

It is brave to be involved

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

Growing is the result of learning.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.