Gail Bradbrook Quotes

We should be on the forefront on this focus on justice, and do all we can to care about our community, to care about our society, and to make our communities a much better place.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

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

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

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.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

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

A change of mentality is needed, no longer seeing the poor as a burden, or as intruders trying to profit from others, but as people seeking to share the goods of the world so that we can create a just and prosperous world for all.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear