social justice Quotes

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of... ...

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually... ...

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.