Social Justice

Social justice is the idea that people with different backgrounds and different characteristics should have the same opportunity and rights, and be given equal status in life.

New Releases Tagged "Social Justice"

Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Lies They Told
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Abundance
The Women on Platform Two
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Solito
Take My Hand
The Message
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Poverty, by America
Sisters in the Wind
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
Just Mercy
How to Be an Antiracist
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
So You Want to Talk About Race
The Hate U Give
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
We Should All Be Feminists

Ha-Joon Chang
Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and eff ...more
Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

B.R. Ambedkar
A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society
B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste

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