Quotes on Social Justice

They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Children need models rather than critics.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.