Ruby Bridges Quotes

I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I wanted to help the world be more just.

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

I really am focused on making sure we're doing everything we can so every single person in our country... has the right to thrive... and live in a just and equitable society.

Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

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

If you want peace work for justice.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

If you want peace, work for justice.

The story of America is the story of an ever widening circle of human care and responsibility.

Christ died for all; for the African as well as the European. Have we recognized this fact? Have we come up to the full measure of the duty we owe to our less favored brother?

The classical case is that of the starving man who steals a loaf of bread. That he should be allowed to go free is understandable enough; but it is less understandable that 'society's' obligation not to let him starve should devolve upon one baker chosen at random and not on society as a whole.

We must stand up and do everything we can for the people who do not have a voice.