Book of Deuteronomy Quotes

I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

To the workman we appeal by the memory and traditions of his own sufferings and wrongs to be vigilant to avoid the great guilt of inflicting upon his fellow-citizens the injustice from which he has himself escaped.

I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Workers are not to be treated as slaves; justice demands that the dignity of human personality be respected in them

As labor is the common burden of our race so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden on to the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us.

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.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

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.

It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.