Casimira Rodriguez Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

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.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Equal Rights for All, Special Privileges for None.

…aspiration for justice often finds itself the captive of ideologies which hide or pervert its meaning …

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Freedom is not enough.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Equality is a monster.