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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.


Douglas Tompkins

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RICK PERLSTEIN Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social...
RAFAEL CRUZ Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
KATHLEEN WYNNE The country is turning into a raw materials appendage, ... There is no social justice.
GENNADY ZYUGANOV I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church ...
GLENN BECK There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned...
FIDEL CASTRO Another major difference between justice in the Bible and our modern views of justice is that in our...
JESSICA NICHOLAS If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA We need the Bible to find a unifying, God-centered, and gospel-centered expression of justice and ri...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Delight is God’s why behind the justice, righteousness, and steadfast love He practices. It’s no...
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JULIAN BOND Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
ARTHUR HENDERSON Biblical righteousness has much more to do with social morality and justice and is foundational to r...
JESSICA NICHOLAS As I started to learn more about biblical justice and righteousness, my picture changed from an angr...
JESSICA NICHOLAS People took ownership of the shalom and wholeness of their community; and, if something was wrong, t...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Doing justice” meant not only “not doing wrong,” but also actively doing right and restoring w...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Western views of justice are primarily focused on how things should be done—laws, rules, and what ...
JESSICA NICHOLAS The welfare of you, your community, and the world are central to living righteousness. The Creator o...
JESSICA NICHOLAS It might seem that righteousness means you have to live up to God’s standards, like when you are i...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Instead of using His righteousness as an excuse to distance Himself from people, God’s righteousne...
JESSICA NICHOLAS From the beginning, God’s justice has been transformational -- restoring the world back to right a...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
THOMAS SOWELL Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
PHILIP GOUREVITCH I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt i...
C.S. LEWIS Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most
miserable of all
PAULO COELHO I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individu...
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of w...
BELL HOOKS The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
BRYAN STEVENSON The concepts of social equality and social justice are not always the same.
ILKIN SANTAK Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.
C. CURRAN The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
PATRICK W. CORRIGAN God intended the entire culture of Israel to learn and teach how to do justice in a way that shaped ...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Many are attracted to social service-the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we h...
JULIAN BOND God’s justice is satisfied when there is restoration.
JESSICA NICHOLAS The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't ...
DEAN KOONTZ China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social j...
AI WEIWEI We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environme...
BARBARA BOXER But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
DAR WILLIAMS This decision is a manifestation of our
commitment to the Constitution and social justice.
LINDA HUNTER God’s justice is higher than merely punishing someone who has committed an injustice—He desires ...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Apathy is not compatible with love
SIMON TAM The scales of justice are tilted by money
It's rather ironic but far from funny
The powerf...
JUSTIN WETCH You have to educate religious bodies that social justice is faith in action.
LINDA HILTON If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice a...
DAVID JABER I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER God’s personal, passionate concern for justice and righteousness was the starting place for His pe...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Doing “justice and righteousness” means loving the things that lead to life and actively rightin...
JESSICA NICHOLAS When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you ...
PAUL HAWKEN In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
N.K. JEMISIN I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Activists are ignitors. They ignite new possibilities, new opportunities and new ways of thinking.
DIAN HUFF KISER The civil justice system is built on a lie -- that vanquishing the other guy will solve your problem...
DAN FAGIN It will be wrong to conclude that what cannot be measured is not important.
NEIL JAIN For many of us, justice is something that is static, idealistic, and codified. In contrast, mishpat ...
JESSICA NICHOLAS All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social...
R. D. LAING When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignoran...
EVA LONGORIA Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a...
BILL AYERS To think of a coalition between myself and Bibi [Netanyahu] requires great imagination. There is no ...
AMIR PERETZ If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
GLENN BECK My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
MARTIN SHEEN We must have a blueprint not only for a guided economy but for a social order based on justice and e...
SUKARNO They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who s...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but......
NICOLA STURGEON Justice and righteousness” was never meant to be the work of only one person, or one part of socie...
JESSICA NICHOLAS The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which has...
MIKE NESBITT Mr. Ruebhausen was a man who was deeply interested in social justice, who wanted to make the Yale La...
DAVID ROBINSON Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure...
JACK LAYTON a great advocate for social justice . . . she fights for affordable housing, civil rights and econom...
MARGARITA LOPEZ There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - ...
MAGGIE Q Doing “justice and righteousness” means honoring and expressing God’s intended order and His w...
JESSICA NICHOLAS We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human hi...
BOB BROWN In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...
JANE ADDAMS Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Th...
WENDY LONG We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free...
CLAUDIO HUMMES Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all ...
NORMAN BORLAUG Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.
PAUL HAWKEN Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solu...
NILANTHA ILANGAMUWA Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
CILLA BLACK My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.
CLAYTON CRAMER The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a socia...
DAVID H. KOCH Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
DOROTHY DAY If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own fe...
DEBBY IRVING From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of ou...
CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
SUSAN SONTAG The Western States nervous under the beginning change.
Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas,...
JOHN STEINBECK Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is...
GUSTAVO GUTIéRREZ How we vote on policy issues, for example, is influenced by whether we attribute economic and achiev...
WALTER MISCHEL If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their p...
KEN WILSON Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by i...
MATTHEW DESMOND Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.
STEPHEN REID I think the world has lost a great voice for social justice, but particularly for gays and lesbians ...
LYNN COTHREN The whole reason that we're doing this is to change the system for the sake of the animals and other...
JEAN KITCHIN For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profoun...
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MICHAEL DOUGLAS The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish u...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, th...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS