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• Our opponents in the agricultural industry are very powerful and farm workers are still weak in money and influence. But we have another kind of power that comes from the justice of our cause. So long as we are willing to sacrifice for that cause, so long as we persist in non-violence and work to spread the message of our struggle, then millions of people around the world will respond from their heart, will support our efforts … and in the end we will overcome.

  Cesar Chavez

  Topics in Justice, Power, Sacrifice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Labor

• 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

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Security, Community

• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Justice, Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Humanism

• It’s time for greatness — not for greed. It’s a time for idealism — not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Topics in Ideals, Justice, Service

  Tags in Greed

• My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Humanity, Justice, Service

• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Justice, Service

  Tags in Revolution, Values, Security

• I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

  Thomas Paine

  Topics in Belief, Justice, Kindness, Religion, Service

  Tags in Believe, Happy, Creed, Credo

• You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Solidarity, Freedom, Labor

• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century — solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Human Rights, Solidarity, Duty, Community, Loneliness

• There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Topics in Influence, Justice, Power, Racism, Service

  Tags in Injustice, Values, Strength

• Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Commitment, Justice, Sacrifice, Suffering

• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique

  Benjamin Jowett

  Topics in Health, Justice

• The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

  Anne Sullivan

  Topics in Education, Future, Justice, Truth

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Honesty, Justice, Truth

  Tags in Reform

• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence…the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Topics in History, Justice

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Nonviolence, Violence

• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Justice, Life

  Tags in Nonviolence, Violence

• The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Violence

• In justice is all virtues found in sum.

  Aristotle

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Virtue

• One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies — right now! — the future vision that we seek

  Arthur Waskow

  Topics in Justice, Spirituality, Vision

  Tags in Now, Reform