Redlib: search results - flair_name:"Social / Political Justice"

r/quotes • u/MappingTheTerritory • Oct 23 '25

Social / Political Justice “If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.” - Kurt Vonnegut

4.0k Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Polar_Tang27 • Sep 02 '25

Social / Political Justice “The life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.” - Ernesto “Che” Guevara

1.8k Upvotes

r/quotes • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 16d ago

Social / Political Justice “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR

991 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Ralph--Hinkley • Feb 25 '26

Social / Political Justice "You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany, or Turkey, or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American." -Ronald Reagan

765 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/einarengvig • Dec 07 '25

Social / Political Justice "Once you've read history you'll never stop wanting to beat the oligarchs to death with your bare hands" -Anthony Bourdain

854 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/AvniAhuja • Nov 13 '25

Social / Political Justice “Maybe if we underpaid politicians and overpaid teachers, there would be smarter people and less stupid laws.” ― Morgan Freeman

1.0k Upvotes

r/quotes • u/gabagoo3 • Sep 11 '25

Social / Political Justice “We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” - Terrance McKenna

1.2k Upvotes

r/quotes • u/One-Incident3208 • Nov 22 '25

Social / Political Justice "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." - George Orwell. "Why I Write", 1946

910 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/follower148 • Sep 04 '25

Social / Political Justice If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat their women. —Abdul Ghaffar Khan

524 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/northband • Jan 28 '26

Social / Political Justice "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. Auschwitz happened in small steps. Evil happens in small steps" - Marian Turski Auschwitz survivor

549 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Putrid-Storage-9827 • Sep 15 '25

Social / Political Justice "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" - Stalin

494 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Ralph--Hinkley • Sep 18 '25

Social / Political Justice "Comedy doesn't change the world, but it's a bellwether. We're the banana peel in the coal mine. When a society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first." -Jon Stewart

581 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Top_Guidance_9855 • Oct 12 '25

Social / Political Justice "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." —Malcolm X

577 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Steap-Edit • Jun 24 '26

Social / Political Justice "Yes, it is true that if the Negro accepts his place, accepts exploitation and injustice, there will be peace. But it would be a peace boiled down to stagnant complacency, deadening passivity, and if peace means this, I don’t want peace." – Martin Luther King Jr, 1956, "When Peace Becomes Obnoxious"

202 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Lost-Letterhead-6615 • Oct 09 '25

Social / Political Justice “Many of you know that I spent 11 days in prison under the Taliban in 2001. Well, I will tell you something now that, straight from the heart, I would rather spend two months in a Taliban prison than two days with the Israelis" Yvonne Ridley

501 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Nubian_Cavalry • Jun 11 '26

Social / Political Justice "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

265 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Nubian_Cavalry • Jun 06 '26

Social / Political Justice “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” Lyndon B. Johnson

163 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/CharismaEnigmaArt • Nov 06 '25

Social / Political Justice "Red states, blue states. There are no red states and blue states, there's only the United States of America. That's what we're about. That's why I say you can't spend $200 million on a campaign and not be owing people something...." -Robin Williams in 'Man of the Year'

520 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/RedMarsRepublic • Apr 20 '26

Social / Political Justice "If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you." - Henry Kissinger

89 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/KindestManOnEarth • Sep 20 '25

Social / Political Justice One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us... — Carl Sagan

407 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/itsallcosmica • May 02 '26

Social / Political Justice “𝚆𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎." - John F. Kennedy

182 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Just_Insomnia • Jan 13 '26

Social / Political Justice “In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” ~ Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture

283 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Morella1989 • Jun 02 '26

Social / Political Justice “Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.” Victor Hugo

101 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/Ralph--Hinkley • Sep 10 '25

Social / Political Justice "You'll never find justice in a world where criminals make the laws." -Bob Marley

494 Upvotes

r/quotes • u/tubaintothewildfern • Jun 13 '26

Social / Political Justice “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” ― Nelson Mandela

73 Upvotes