Shane Claiborne Quotes

I'd like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism... all the usual things.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

Your poverty is my shame.

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

there's no justice, there's only love.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.