Quotes tagged ‘Social Justice’

(19 total)

“I just know what we all should know by now: that no one who has lived publicly, online or off, has a spotless record.”

“It’s a pyramid scheme of promotion.”

“The ice cream company says it's been created with 'a sweet swirl of justice under the lid.'”

“Brett Ridgeman: Politics like always. Lt. Calvert: Like cell phones, and just as annoying, politics are everywhere. Being branded a racist in today's public forum is like being accused of being a communist in the 50s, whether it’s a possibly racist remark made in a private phone call or the indelica…”

— S. Craig Zahler, Anthony Lurasetti, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

“One thing I’ve learned is that when you’re trying to correct someone on something that they’ve believed their whole life, you have to be gentle with them because you’re deconstructing their reality.”

— Chidera Eggerue, theguardian.com

“Enjoy tonight, because guess what? The women and the blacks and the minorities and the trans people are coming to eat your privilege. We are hungry as hell, because we haven’t had a meal in centuries.”

— Jon Brown, Casey, Mary McCormack, imdb.com

“As soon as you double down on your blackness, they will double down on their bullshit... Who cares if you’re woke or not if you’re dead?”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Coco Conners, Antoinette Robertson, imdb.com

“Here in America, we have labored long and hard to achieve a social order worthy of our great heritage. In our time, tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life. Let me assure the forward-looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve…”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“Envy plus rhetoric equals 'social justice.”

— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com

“We elected Johnson and Humphrey and because we had a successful convention, we had the largest range of fundamental civil rights adopted in our history. The Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act the other major measures. All of the programs for educational assistance, poverty assistance early chil…”

— Walter Mondale, repository.wustl.edu

“The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simpl…”

— Trevor Noah, interviewmagazine.com

“I don't get it. Not allowed to ask a Chinese person where the Chinese restaurant is! I mean, aren't we all getting a little too sensitive? I mean, someone asks me which way's Israel, I don't fly off the handle.”

— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com

“In recent years the internet has really become a place for people to spread non-media regulated information and for social justice movements to find their footing. I cannot stop thinking about how this is probably a huge huge reason why net neutrality has been on the chopping block so frequently lat…”

— egberts, egberts.tumblr.com

“In 2014, making a song about shaking it off may have been alright. In 2017, it just reads as irrelevancy.”

— Jacob Shamsian, thisisinsider.com

“Call me crazy, but I hope someday women have more rights than guns do.”

— Josh Gondelman, twitter.com

“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”

— Jennifer Lawrence, dailymail.co.uk

“In general: why has the movement for social justice unfolded in such a way that its most passionate members have forbidden complexity, nuance, internal criticism, and conditional support? [...] Why do people insist we all be loyal soldiers at precisely the time we need robust internal debate the mos…”

— Freddie DeBoer, medium.com

“The CDC estimates that one in two gay black men will acquire HIV in our lifetime. These rates continue to increase even as the general public believes HIV is over. To be clear, the problem here isn’t high-risk behavior. Black gay men aren’t engaging in any riskier behavior than our white counterpart…”

— Terrance Moore, advocate.com

“You are my opposer when I want freedom. You are my opposer when I want justice. You are my opposer when I want equality. You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight — but you won't even stand up for me here at home!”

— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com