Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Shouldn't one of the goals of prison be getting as many of the inmates as possible back out into the world to be responsible citizens? Aren't we just wasting generations of human potential by keeping over two million people behind bars? ”

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us? ”

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ”

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ”

David Milch is one of the smartest human beings I've ever met. I'm relatively bright and relatively well-read. I'm not in a league with that guy. ”

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. ”

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. ”

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! ”

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? ”

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness. ”