Quotation Library
Social Justice
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Social justice cannot be attained by violence.
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable.
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.