“Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. “Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. “If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.” - bell hooks “Without justice there can be no love.” - bell hooks It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.” - James Baldwin People are not born knowing what these are. “Words like ‘freedom,’ ‘justice,’ ‘democracy’ are not common concepts on the contrary, they are rare. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin “Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any Black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most! - and listens to their testimony.” - James Baldwin “If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin And it’s the only way forward.” - Ijeoma Oluo Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. “The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” - Nelson Mandela “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. ![]() That’s something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.” - Colin Kaepernick And that’s something that needs to change. People aren’t being held accountable for. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. “People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option - for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” - John Lewis, on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act “A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” - Angela Davis Related: The best quotes about social justice ![]() “Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” - Reinhold Niebuhr I want the full menu of rights.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu “I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. ![]() It takes no survey to remove repression.” - Harvey Milk It takes no political deal to give people freedom. “It takes no compromise to give people their rights… it takes no money to respect the individual. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part.” - John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. After that, she never raised her hand to her children again.“Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her. When you love someone you create a new world for them. ![]() I saw, more than anything, that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love. I saw the futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats itself, the damage that’s inflicted on people that they in turn inflict on others. I immersed myself in those worlds and I came back looking at the world a different way. She took me to the schools that she never got to go to. She bought me the books she never got to read. My mother had exposed me to a different world than the one she grew up in. Yes, I played pranks and set fires and broke windows, but I never attacked people. “I grew up in a world of violence, but I myself was never violent at all.
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