"We have to search for equality of opportunities and rights, to fight for social benefits, a dignified retirement, holidays, rest, freedom for trade unions. All of these issues create
social justice. There should be no have-nots, and I want to emphasize that the worst wretchedness is not to be able to earn your bread, not to have the dignity of work." —
Evil communist Pope Francis
"We stand for a living wage. The monetary equivalent of a living wage varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to secure the elements of a normal standard of living—a standard high enough to make morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to care for immature members of the family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and to permit a reasonable savings for old age. Hours are excessive if they fail to afford the worker sufficient time to recuperate and return to his work thoroughly refreshed." —
Theodore Roosevelt, "Social and Industrial Justice" speech, August 1912
"The Republican Party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of Lincoln, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of
social justice; or whether it will be the party of privilege and of special interests, the heir to those who were Lincoln's most bitter opponents, the party that represents the great interests within and without Wall Street which desire through their control over the servants of the public to be kept immune from punishment when they do wrong and to be given privileges to which they are not entitled." –
Theodore Roosevelt, "Who is a Progressive?" speech, April 3, 1912
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Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention. There is no other answer. Constructive social change will bring certain tranquility; evasions will merely encourage turmoil. Negroes hold only one key to the double lock of peaceful change: the other is in the hands of the white community." —
Martin Luther King, Where Do We Go From Here?, 1967
Clearly though, the Khmer Rouge and Bernie Sanders are the only people to use the phrase.