Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. ”

We make a mess of things sometimes but that doesn't make you bad - it makes you human. ”

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten. ”

I want to live in a Britain where there is a shared belief in freedom and democracy, and equal rights for men and women. ”

My real passion is social justice, resolving the lack of empowerment, the lack of skills, the fact that young people can't get on the housing ladder, they feel they can't have a decent job, they feel they aren't in control of their lives. ”

We're only human beings and cannot always be in control of our lives. ”

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us. ”

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in. ”

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ”

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. ”