Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential. ”

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home. ”

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that. ”

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ”

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being. ”

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. ”

I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity. ”

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church. ”

Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others. ”

We're going to have to become very aggressive in addressing justice issues that have to do with fairness and doing that which is equitable and honoring to God. ”