"Social justice is justice in relation to a fair balance in the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals's rights are recognized and protected."
The pursuit of equal rights, opportunities, and treatment for all members of a society, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or other social category.
Intersectionality: A concept that describes how different identity markers, such as race, gender, class, and sexual orientation, intersect and create unique experiences of oppression and privilege.
Institutional Racism: Structural practices and policies that perpetuate racial inequalities and disparities.
Marginalized Identities: Populations or individuals who are excluded or marginalized due to their ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, or ability.
Cultural Pluralism: The idea that various cultures and identities can coexist and thrive despite differences.
Power and Privilege: The unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and power among different social groups.
Social Justice Movements: Grassroots efforts to address systemic and individual injustices, such as Black Lives Matter, Feminism, and LGBTQIA+ rights movements.
White Supremacy: A system of beliefs (and actions) that prioritize White people's interests, comfort, and safety over those of Black, Brown, indigenous, or other people of color.
Oppression and Violence: Acts of systemic or individual harm (such as hate crimes, police brutality, restrictive immigration policies) that deny rights, safety, and dignity to marginalized communities.
Allyship and Anti-racism: Strategies, practices, and actions that White and other privileged people can take to support and empower marginalized communities.
Cultural Competence and Sensitivity: Skills and knowledge necessary to recognize, understand, and appreciate differences among individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds.
The role of language in social justice movements: How language can be used to empower or disempower marginalized communities, and how it shapes different social contexts.
Feminism and Gender: How gender roles and expectations impact people in society, intersectional analysis of different forms of discriminations such as gender, race, sexuality, class, among others.
Queer Studies: A field of study that examines the experience and representation of LGBTQIA+ populations in different contexts and cultures.
Disability Studies: An interdisciplinary field of study that explores social and cultural constructions of disability, accessibility, and ableism.
Indigenous Studies: Focused on the experiences, cultures, and histories of indigenous people, and how colonization, racism, and disenfranchisement impact them.
Racial Justice: This refers to promoting equal treatment and opportunities regardless of race or ethnicity.
Gender Justice: This involves eliminating gender discrimination and promoting equality regardless of gender identity or expression.
LGBT+ Justice: This is about achieving equality and ending discrimination against people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other non-heterosexual identities.
Economic Justice: This involves reducing income and wealth inequality and improving economic opportunities for marginalized communities, including people living in poverty.
Disability Justice: This focuses on advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities, including access to education, employment, and other basic necessities.
Environmental Justice: This involves working towards eliminating environmental racism and achieving fair access to environmental benefits and protection.
Restorative Justice: This emphasizes repairing harm caused by crime, violence, or other wrongdoing and promoting healing for both victims and offenders.
Indigenous Justice: This involves promoting the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous people and addressing historical and ongoing injustices against them.
Immigration Justice: This refers to advocating for the rights of immigrants and refugees, including fighting against deportations and policies that discriminate based on nationality or citizenship status.
Education Justice: This focuses on promoting equity and access to education for all students regardless of their social status.
"The concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive their due from society."
"The emphasis has been on the breaking of barriers for social mobility, the creation of safety nets, and economic justice."
"Social justice assigns rights and duties in the institutions of society, which enables people to receive the basic benefits and burdens of cooperation."
"The relevant institutions often include taxation, social insurance, public health, public school, public services, labor law and regulation of markets, to ensure distribution of wealth, and equal opportunity."
"Interpretations that relate justice to a reciprocal relationship to society are mediated by differences in cultural traditions, some of which emphasize the individual responsibility toward society and others the equilibrium between access to power and its responsible use."
"Reinterpreting historical figures such as Bartolomé de las Casas."
"Gender, ethnic, and social equality, advocating justice for migrants, prisoners, the environment, and the physically and developmentally disabled."
"Classical and Christian philosophical sources, from Plato and Aristotle to Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas."
"The term social justice finds its earliest uses in the late 18th century, albeit with unclear theoretical or practical meanings."
"The term was popularized generically through the writings of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati."
"Progressive Era American legal scholars, particularly Louis Brandeis and Roscoe Pound."
"From the early 20th century it was also embedded in international law and institutions."
"John Rawls in A Theory of Justice (1971)."
"The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action treats social justice as a purpose of human rights education."
"The use of the term was early on subject to accusations of redundancy and of rhetorical flourish."
"Luigi Taparelli coined and defined the term in a natural law social scientific treatise, establishing the natural law principle."
"Social justice is invoked today in efforts for gender, ethnic, and social equality, advocating justice for migrants, prisoners, the environment, and the physically and developmentally disabled."
"Social justice was made central to the philosophy of the social contract."
"Universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice."