Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ”

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. ”

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise. ”

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world. ”

We've begun to get justice. ”

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. ”

The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned. ”

During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health. ”

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment. ”

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. ”