Social Justice matters because we-each of us-matter.
Speak truth..
Plug in.
Examine yourself.
Introspection , engagement , and advocacy are essential stops along the way.
It is nonetheless an odyssey worth taking-a quest so many of us have no choice but to embrace.
Achieving Social Justice is an aspirational pursuit-an ongoing journey that can be fraught with peril and disappointment.
Critical thinking animates the three core activities necessary for Social Justice advancement: introspection, engagement, and advocacy.
To be ready, we must know, care, and act: know -look at ourselves, others, events, and institutions; care -reflect on recurring inequalities and inequities; and act -work on solutions to effect and advance meaningful, measurable, maintainable solutions.
Through critical thinking, we best position ourselves to tackle seemingly overwhelming Social Justice issues.
Recognizing our shared humanity-and the power of we-and rectifying disparities and inequities are among the chief aims of Social Justice initiatives.
For example, our history teems with examples of fractious relations among racial, ethnic, and cultural groups and an overarching white supremacist ideology that places some at an advantage at the expense of others.
We pay a cost for failing to internalize and act upon history\'s lessons.
This book offers 10 Ways we can advance Social justice.
Certain facts and factors that cause misalignments in the Social order-inequality and inequity-Social inJustice -but there are Ways to intervene and interrupt them.
Through our disagreements, we must never doubt the dignity and worth of the other.
When we see ourselves in others, we understand that our shared humanity eclipses all else.
Those tendencies, left unchecked, lead to horrific ends.
Absent the wholesale embrace of Social justice, we risk succumbing to human tendencies to stereotype, otherize, and scapegoat.
To denigrate any one of us is to demean all of us.
Unless we learn to co-exist as equals, we will never live optimally.
Social Justice matters because we-each of us-matter
