#justic

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#better place #challenge #community #evoke #just

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#freedom #includes #justice #masses #peace

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#desire #driven #incorruptible #justice #passionate

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#bribery #by the people #for the people #form #government

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#bondage #expense #flagrant #folly #free

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#civil #civil rights #columbia #district #district of columbia

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#forget #forth #freedom #fun #have fun

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. ↗

— Robert Jenkins

#american #army #assigned #bring #capable

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. ↗

— Junius

#individual #injustice #public #service #sometimes

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation