Social Justice Bible Quotes

We stand at the intersection of extreme privilege and extreme poverty, and we have a question to answer: Do I care? Am I moved by the suffering of all nations? Am I even concerned about the homeless guy on the corner? Am I willing to take the Bible at face value and concur that God is obsessed with social justice? I won't answer one day for how the US government spent billions of dollars on the war in Iraq ($816 billion and counting, when $9 billion would solve the planet's water crisis[36]), nor will I get the credit for the general philanthropy of others. It will come down to what I did. What you did. What we did together. ~ Jen Hatmaker

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. ~ James A. Baldwin

It might come as a surprise, but the Bible also addresses the importance of corporate responsibility. The Old Testament "law of gleaning" speaks loud and clear about this. Leviticus 19: 9-10 (NIV) summarizes this important social justice law which is also restated in Deuteronomy 24: "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God." This law from God Himself, commanded landowners, business owners in our language today, to leave some of their potential profits for immigrants and the poor. ~ Robert Chao Romero

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. ~ Glenn Beck

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping. ~ Dean Koontz

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility. ~ Rafael Cruz

If our social justice is guided by retribution, we will simply perpetuate the use and abuse of power to inflict violence. ~ Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. ~ Arthur Henderson

When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom. ~ John Wimber

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice. ~ Thomas Sowell

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ~ Julian Bond

If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity. ~ David Jaber

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. ~ Martin Sheen

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life. ~ Albert Einstein

And as for social justice, if social is supposed to be opposed to individual, then social justice is by definition unjust. The ~ Ben Shapiro

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. ~ Bill Ayers

It is entirely possible to work for justice without thirsting for blood. ~ Jamie Arpin-Ricci

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction. ~ Prince

They focused a large amount of their wrath on people trying to add dialogue about feminism and diversity in gaming, condemning them as "Social Justice Warriors." (That label was always so weird to me, because how is that an insult? "Social Justice Warrior" actually sounds pretty badass.) ~ Felicia Day

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. ~ Norman Borlaug

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself. ~ Eric Metaxas

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win. ~ I. F. Stone

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history. ~ Simon Schama

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism. ~ Bell Hooks

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order. ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do. ~ Silvio Santos

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. ~ Garet Garrett

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here. ~ Kathleen Wynne

Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time. ~ Mario Vargas-Llosa

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether. ~ Clare Boothe Luce

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money. ~ Charles Lindbergh

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense. ~ Marianne Williamson

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level. ~ Sharan Burrow

So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity. ~ Thomas Sowell

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice". ~ Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise. ~ Thomas Sowell

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. ~ Audre Lorde

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. ~ Arnold Joseph Toynbee

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to ~ Simon S. Tam

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

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. ~ Alice Stone Blackwell

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. ~ Gloria Steinem

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow. ~ Guy Burgess

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say. ~ Jordan B. Peterson

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists. ~ Hans F. Sennholz

Being authentically you is an act of social justice. ~ Kierra C.T. Banks

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. ~ Corazon Aquino

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue! ~ Patrick W. Corrigan

The "social justice" movement is not at all about social justice, but about relentlessly bullying anyone who does not subscribe to their Stalinist ideology. ~ Joshua Goldberg

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. ~ Jennifer Chiaverini

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights. ~ Irene Khan

The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror. ~ James Wolfensohn

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ... ~ Stephane Dion

The Sister Fund supports spiritual women and their organizations, both grassroots activists for justice, and national and international social change agents. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about "social justice" all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get reelected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice. ~ Thomas Sowell

Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought ~ Simon S. Tam

If you want to advocate for change, observe critically an ongoing struggle a group of people encounter for periods of time and formulate a solution that adequately address the problem for social justice. ~ Saaif Alam

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ~ Isabel Allende

To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever. ~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

Justice cannot just be something that one part of society inflicts on the other. ~ Cathy O'Neil

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility. ~ Mahnaz Afkhami

I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice. ~ Ann Nocenti

I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries. ~ William J. Clinton

I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture. ~ Simon S. Tam

16. Because of this, evangelism cannot be divorced from the preaching and practicing of justice. This is the flaw in the view according to which evangelism is given absolute priority over social involvement, or where evangelism is separated from justice, even if it is maintained that, together with social justice, it constitutes "mission. ~ David J. Bosch

Justice is a social construct. It's well known that the physical universe isn't fair. Nevertheless, it's difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering. ~ Susan Cartwright

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. ~ Marcus Garvey

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy. ~ A. Philip Randolph

Authenticity is an act of social justice. ~ Kierra C.T. Banks

It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good. ~ Pope Pius XI

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong. ~ Thomas Sowell

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way. ~ Joseph O'Connor

We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism. ~ Clay Routledge

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. ~ Julian Bond

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies.
Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory. ~ Ha-Joon Chang

They who are to be judges must also be performers. ~ Aristotle.

Whites have traded their culture for power. ~ Eileen O'Brien

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced. ~ Toni Morrison

You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity. ~ Sunday Adelaja

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. ~ Geraldine Brooks

How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice? ~ Cliff Richard

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it. ~ Evo Morales

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. ~ Barbara Boxer

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that envisions a society in which faith in God is rendered quite unnecessary, since everybody already believes in peace and justice even when everybody does not believe in God. ~ Stanley Hauerwas

I'm worried about well-meaning white folks, who in their effort to lead a social justice conversation as my allies, make missteps that continue to reinforce oppression in racialized communities, and do a disservice to mainstream feminist social justice work, which should surely be intersectional as fuck by now. ~ Anonymous

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage. ~ Alain LeRoy Locke

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ~ Jane Addams

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do. ~ Nick Clegg

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged. ~ Jessica Valenti

If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication. ~ Kofi Annan

Throughout his life Hayek wanted to affirm his identity with the classic liberal tradition, believing that the true cause of the crises leading to two world wars was the steady increase increase in the power of the state, and its misuse in the pursuit of unattainable goals. 'Social justice' was the name of one of these goals, and Hayek expressly dismissed the expression as a piece of deceptive Newspeak, used to advance large-scale injustice in the name of its opposite. ~ Roger Scruton

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself. ~ Herbert Hoover

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. ~ Garry Kasparov

Justice always finds the void that seeks it. Justice is a traveler through time. ~ Hendrith Smith

Privilege is least apparent to those who have it. ~ Clarence Page

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles." ~ Sonia Johnson